Jennifer MacMillan
"The problem is not desire. It's that your desires are too small." -- Sri Nisargadatta
THE GIRL WHO KNEW THE FUTURE (Remix) by Jennifer MacMillan, (2009) Super 8 to 16 mm, b/w, 1 min. silentA remix of a film I made 7 years ago, inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire's, "Les Collines," Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War. Captured on Super 8 and transferred to 16mm using the optical printer, this film is grainy, glittery, and French! I'm bringing it back . . ."I've traversed the glowing skyWhere life is a melody." - Guillaume Apollinaire
It is repose in the light, neither fever nor languor, on a bed or on a meadow. It is the friend neither violent nor weak. The friend. It is the beloved neither tormenting nor tormented. The beloved. Air and the world not sought. Life.-- Rimbaud, "Vigils"
An impromptu study of wing movement!
THE GARDEN DISSOLVES INTO AIR by Jennifer MacMillan, super 8 to 16mm to video, color, sound, 6 min.A cinematic exploration through the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, using a super-8 camera and the simple power of observation; a document of flowers, butterflies, dragonflies, and goldfish has been captured and analyzed through the optical printer and Final Cut Pro. A true film/video hybrid of science & imagination, this digitally manipulated 16mm film in some small way approaches the marsh flowers of ...
A super 8 film to video, including footage that has been painted, bleached, and then composited in Final Cut Pro, this is a cinema-poem of and for my cat, Camille. Is the animal merging with the divine? Sound by Alex Zhort . . . turn up the volume!
A farewell to Summer . . .
"He who know that flowers are visions, let him enter boldly."Charlotte and Jason, sister and brother, capture grasshoppers in the soft palms of their hands. They explore the green and topaz garden, where the most delicate of antennae are tenderly watched over by all children. A song is woven with the discovery of pink, yellow, and violet petals, perched upon emerald stems. A flutter of wings startles, surprise! In the morning goldfish fly and honeybees dance in a love that extends across all k...
