28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Carol
synopsis
Shots of the details of trees gradually intertwine with the female silhouette in this abstract portrait of the director's wife. Carol Emshwiller was a strong voice in American science fiction literature’s new wave from the mid-1950s. Ursula K. Le Guin praised her as “a major fabulist, a marvelous magical realist, one of the strongest, most complex, most consistently feminist voices in fiction.”
“Carol and I spent a few days filming in the woods. We took a few shots of her, trees, and twigs, which I combined with places modified by the sound of the kalimba.” E. Emshwiller
biography
Ed Emshwiller (1925-1990) was one of the founders of video art. He sought to create an alternative technological language; by combining synthesizers and computers, he wanted to demonstrate the transformational property of media in connection with technology at a personal and symbolic level. This synthesis can be seen in his works Scape-mates (1972) and Sunstone (1979).more about film
| director: | Ed Emshwiller |
