Cloud film is an entirely handmade 10-minute long rayogram film that has been optically printed to fluctuate between 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 fps. Some clouds stay for a while, while others are fleeting.    cloud film calls attention to form as it is completely handmade, frame by frame, by the filmmaker starting with creating cloud-like sculptures. rayogramming, optically printing, and hand processing.  content advisory: flicker, strobing effect

bombs like fireworks, the artifice of televised war  in a soft, black sky, perforations of light in the film’s velvet for any serious reflection the sidereal  CONSIDER  in memory of the fallen in Gaza, the stars.

The film weaves “Poem for Three Voices” by Bhanu Kapil and dropped frames of a VHS tape of “New York: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns to comment on the tape’s decaying state and somatic experience of living in New York.

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"Silence IV" (Լռության կաթիլային) is a two-minute video-bite shot entirely on cellphone. The video was created in April 2023, during the nine-month blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Between the alarming and scary news coming from home and the calm reality of every-day life abroad, Anna Grigorian tries to make sense of the two realities through art. Playing with lights on interior surfaces the artist is working through the conflicts between her immediate surroundings and split identity (immigration, immediate surrounding, internal space). 

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective.   Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A whole different empire of vision, impossible to put into words.   “Nothing” as anything outside common visual knowledge, anything that defies the logic of naming the world; a possibility for a new way of thinking; of dealing with our visual world.

An explorer from the past (or present) arrives in the Galapagos Islands for the first time to have a tactile encounter with rocks and tortoises. In the darkness of the volcanic tunnels the beasts transfigure freely. Giant tortoises hold the mystery of the universe in the scars on their backs, and to their misfortune they are also a coveted food for hungry sailors who prowl the Pacific Ocean aimlessly.

Untitled (A Study in Refraction) explores form, color, and motion in a dark space. Shot on an iPhone11 using multicolor string lights and different household glassware.  Soundtrack by Ben Opie & Adam Kantz. Recorded live at Sync'd 8 on March 4, 2023 at The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination in Pittsburgh, PA.

An homage to Stan Brakhage's "Mothlight" (1963) and cybernetic computer art, made with errors produced by deliberately breaking contemporary 'generative AI' video tools.

A revenge fantasy. A corrupted & glitched daydream. A futile endeavor to cope with visions of terror... Sunflower Fields Forever!  Scenes were cut from various films by necrorealist filmmaker Yevgeni Yufit into a new narrative influenced by the pain unleashed by russia's recent invasion of Ukraine. This new cut was datamoshed with avidemux and printed with an inkjet printer. As the ink cartridges were allowed to run empty, the prints and colors became faulty, adding another layer of glitching. For some scenes the prints were manipulated even further by collaging, applying water to the ink or using sticky tape to tear off parts of the images.. The soundscape is made entirely with sounds found in the same films. Like the images, these sounds were collaged and manipulated as well.

This video was shot while digitizing an analogue film. As sunlight passed through the reel, reflections danced across the table. Video effects transform light into shapes and audio into soundscape.   

First 2 minutes of the film: Black board with white title. A short control signal of 440 hz of square wave is heard. A blue screen with a slight grain appears. After a few seconds the first drum beat can be heard. The sound is abrupt but transient of a bass drum is more of 808 (even 606) than 909. At the same time, the colour changes tracing the volume. There is a sudden jump to red and a return to blue passing through different hues of both colours. Beat continues. The rhythm is irregular, its intervals resembling a Geiger counter reading, contradicting the intentions of whoever programmed it. At times, however, a kind of musicality is revealed. The tempo undulates, at times speeding up and slowing down, producing a stroboscopic effect. It breaks off and resumes, entering a kind of stupor from time to time. In the second minute it stabilises and is regular for several seconds. After this, however, it returns to its variations, which seem even more unrestrained. After two minutes, this process is interrupted by a black screen with an accompanying control signal. After which the screen turns blue again and…