SATURDAY, APRIL 26 – 7:30PM with filmmaker in person for Q+A
ONE NIGHT ONLY!
This April, interdisciplinary artist and longtime friend of Spectacle Ryan Marino joins us for a one night presentation of short films spanning nearly two decades – the first time Marino’s films have been collected in one program. Shot and projected on 16mm film, Marino’s work interrogates the interplay of light and dark, texture and negative space, happenstance and design; he follows in the tradition of avant-garde filmmakers like Nathaniel Dorsky and Rose Lowder, while his practice as a noise artist and recordist of wild field audio informs the relationship between documentation and fragmentation (which, in turn, these highly impressionistic works make into cinema.)
ALL THAT REMAINS
2008. 8 mins. 16mm.
A study in the light, textures and ghosts that make up the abandoned.
THE LUMINOUS PASSAGE
2010. 6 mins. 16mm.
A meditation on the passage of time and light, an evocation of the season of autumn.
A DISTANT HORIZON
2012. 6 mins. 16mm.
Remote landscapes elicit fragments of strata and sediment suggesting an existence marked not by man but by time. A vibrant sun illuminates the contours of the land providing a natural show of light and shadow play.
OLD GROWTH
2014. 8 mins. 16mm.
Amid the arboreal giants and temperate organisms of a primeval rain forest lurks an elusive luminous force.
AURA OF UNCERTAINTY
2016. 6 mins. 16mm.
Ominous passages of time and light provide a fleeting glimpse into the unknown.
DEPTHS
2020. 5 mins. 16mm.
Traversing the darkness and emerging into the light.
RADIANT FORMS
2022. 7 mins. 16mm.
Luminous forms merging in time.
HALF LIGHT
2023. 10 mins. 16mm.
Shot over a period of three years in a single interior space, this film explores sensory perception through the textural surface of expired film stock, light and layered images. Ephemeral moments meld into voids of grain.
THE VISIBLE MATERIAL
2024. 8 mins. 16mm.
Through means of rephotography and refracted projection, the movements and luminescent surfaces of Berlin’s Alexanderplaz are transformed into vibrant fields of moving color.
RYAN MARINO is an New York-based artist working with film, and sound. His 16mm films have screened at a variety of film festivals and venues including: Anthology Film Archives, Crossroads, New York Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Uplink, RPM Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, WNDX Festival of the Moving Image, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Transient Visions, Celluloidra Revolverrel, Ribalta Experimental Film Festival, Engauge Experimental Film Festival and Pacific Film Archive. In addition to creating the soundtracks for his own films, his sound work includes original compositions and commissioned soundtracks for short films and theater productions. By day he works as an audiovisual archivist.