16mm to digital, b/w, silent, 09:05

The film chronicles a holiday getaway to Montauk, New York. The traveller surveys enclosing seashores and forested inlands as a fixation upon particular sites slowly develops. Defunct military stations, tangled trees in forests, stairways of private homes, shifting facades of hoodoos, distinguished condominiums, and shallow waters at sunset are revisited throughout the duration of this daytrip. The traveller cautiously sways and comfortably sits among these landscapes, void of local residents or travel companions. It is uncertain if these passages are representative of a newfound expedition or reminiscent of past encounters. The contrast between distancing and dwelling acts only to confuse consequence of this voyage.

Exhibitions:

November 8 - 24, 2013
Golden Mountain Exhibition
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Galway, Ireland

Screenings:

December 12, 2011
1:1
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

May 16, 2010
Interiority Complex: A CCNY Conversations Series
Motor City Bar
New York, NY

16mm to digital, color, sound, 06:29

Made in memory of the theme park that still remains in Baltimore County, these strange tableaus weave together the beauty of both the abandoned and transplanted landscape. Subtle superimpositions of the vibrant attractions amidst the forgotten forest present the possibility of a nostalgic return to a former glory.

Music : Leopold Stokowski (with the Philadelphia Orchestra)

Screenings:

September 27, 2014
NOT SO STATIC: Lorenzo Gattorna and Close Company
The Nightingale
Chicago, IL

May 25, 2014
Sight Unseen presents BALTIMORE-BASED
Artsfest Film Festival
Harrisburg, PA

April 19, 2014
UNEXPOSED #3
The Barn & Cupola
Durham, NC

March 18, 2014
Sight Unseen presents BALTIMORE-BASED
Videofag
Toronto, Ontario

February 17, 2014
Sight Unseen presents BALTIMORE-BASED
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

February 10, 2014
Sight Unseen presents BALTIMORE-BASED
The Crown
Baltimore, MD

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

May 30, 2012
Shoot. Score. Baltimore. 2012
Creative Alliance
Baltimore, MD

May 7, 2011
Near and Dear
UnionDocs
Brooklyn, NY

16mm to digital, color, sound, 11:50

New Mexico became for us a representation of the capacity for biological and astronomical resonance and retreat; the improbable made possible through an imaginative framework alternative to the empirical environment.

Music: Erik Satie

Screenings:

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

November 30, 2011
The Improbable Made Possible
Spectacle Theater
Brooklyn, NY

16mm to digital, b/w & color, sound, 03:00

The title signifies the Native American name for the Grand Canyon, a massive gorge in the state of Arizona and one of the seven natural wonders of the world. Turbulence and tranquility gain exposure at enthralling elevations. Strata are uplifted through edges of contrast caused by severe slants of the sun. The scope of the sacred site reaches translation in static brevity, unearthing billions of years of sedimentary rock sequences.

Music: Kevin McEleney

Screenings:

July 31, 2014
Shadowplay: Summer Fundraiser Screening
Balagan Film Series
Boston, Massachusetts

April 19, 2014
UNEXPOSED #3
The Barn & Cupola
Durham, NC

May 29, 2013
Bonnie Jones & Dafne Vicente Sandoval / Lorenzo Gattorna / Ryan Marino
The Red Room
Baltimore, MD

May 26, 2013
DEPROGRAM/REPROGRAM
Artsfest Film Festival
Harrisburg, PA

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

March 10, 2013
Hitting on the Head Lessons
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Chicago, IL

16mm to digital, b/w & color, sound, 04:36

The title signifies the Native American name for Assateague Island, a national seashore and natural landmark located off the coast of Maryland. A passive bay and pristine beach compose the barriers of this subtle yet stunning passage. Distractions amongst the dunes awaken development of the ecological and departure of the artificial. The film culminates in close proximity to a small band of feral horses that share a common territory and domesticated ancestry.

Music: Kevin McEleney

Exhibitions:

July 18 - August 4, 2013
Sondheim Artscape Prize Semi-Finalists Exhibition
Decker Gallery & Meyerhoff Gallery, MICA
Baltimore, MD

Screenings:

September 27, 2014
NOT SO STATIC: Lorenzo Gattorna and Close Company
The Nightingale
Chicago, IL

August 1, 2014
THIS IS OUR UNIVERSE/EVERYTHING IS STRANGE
Microlights @ The Great Poor Farm Experiment VI
Milwaukee, WI

July 3 & 5, 2014
PROGRAM TIME
Images Contre Nature
Marseille, France

June 8, 2014
DAY INVERSION
Les Rencontres Internationales
Berlin, Germany

March 2, 2014
DAY INVERSION
Les Rencontres Internationales
Paris, France

December 28, 2013
Sonic Circuits
Pyramid Atlantic
Silver Spring, MD

November 30, 2013
The Good Old Days
VIDEOMEDEJA
Novi Sad, Serbia

November 10, 2013
Open Colour / New Experiments in Film
Colour Out of Space / 6
Brighton, UK

October 19, 2013
Urban-Rural Landscapes 7
Utopia Film Festival
Greenbelt, MD

September 7, 2013
Wandering, Pausing
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
Chicago, IL

August 26 & 30, 2013
International Competition 6
ARKIPEL Int'l Documentary & Experimental Film Festival
Jakarta, Indonesia

June 21, 2013
Frames Per Second: Rare Earth
PLUG Projects
Kansas City, MO

June 8, 2013
Competitive Screening #4: Oh no, the woods!
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
Haverhill, MA

May 26, 2013
DEPROGRAM/REPROGRAM
Artsfest Film Festival
Harrisburg, PA

May 9 & 11, 2013
Shorts: Experimental
Maryland Film Festival
Baltimore, MD

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

October 6, 2012
Beyond the Borderline
Views from the Avant-Garde
New York Film Festival
New York, NY

16mm to digital, b/w, silent, 12:21

Falling Out captures on discontinued b/w and color film the ambiguous determination and seamless distancing of a father and son over the course of several seasons. Part One sways between scenes of shared experiences and temporal passages revealing the fragility and fortitude of the relationship. It is presented as a diptych to further reflect the presence of a father and son, the mindsets affected by the conflicts endured. The confluence of conflict and camaraderie calls into question the demonstration of a familial revival. The bond amongst the father and son strays just as intensely as it returns home.

Exhibitions:

September 14 - November 15, 2014
Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch
Galerie Myrtis
Baltimore, MD

November 15, 2013
mIrrorspeak
EMP Collective
Baltimore, MD

Screenings:

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

February 7, 2013
The Grandfather Trilogy & Falling Out
Creative Alliance
Baltimore, MD

December 8, 2012
The Experiment: Serials
Maysles Cinema
New York, NY

16mm to digital, b/w and color, sound, 06:25

In early September 1995 the Sunrise Wildfire was extinguished. 7,000 acres had burned during the peak of the tourist season yet nobody was killed. The aggravated assault swept from one side of Sunrise Highway to the other without the slightest hesitance. Another series of severe brush fires ignited 17 years later and became known as the Brookhaven Blaze. The outbreak left around 2,000 acres torched. The wild ruin and regrowth were revisited within The Central Pine Barrens, the largest natural area on Long Island and its last remaining wilderness.

Sound: Ryan Marino

Screenings:

October 17, 2014
trav·e·logue
Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image
Johnson City, NY

May 30, 2014
COMPETITIVE SCREENING #1: "The Valley Between Fires"
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
Haverhill, MA

April 19, 2014
UNEXPOSED #3
The Barn & Cupola
Durham, NC

December 14, 2013
Sonic Circuits
Pyramid Atlantic
Silver Spring, MD

May 29, 2013
Bonnie Jones & Dafne Vicente Sandoval / Lorenzo Gattorna / Ryan Marino
The Red Room
Baltimore, MD

March 18, 2013
The Ghostly Elsewhere
Microscope Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

Sight Unseen is a nomadic entity showcasing avant-garde film, video and expanded cinema. It invites recognized pioneers and emerging innovators of moving image media to participate in curated programs and filmmaking workshops at distinguished and developing venues throughout Baltimore, Maryland. It is graciously supported by the MICA LAB Award since June 2012 and fiscally sponsored and partially funded since June 2014 by Artists Public Domain and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, respectively. It has thus far featured over 130 artists in more than 30 programs at 20 or so venues throughout Baltimore and beyond. Sight Unseen continues to advance alternative modes of time-based art and challenge the pursuits of its diverse audience base.

Sight Unseen has formed partnerships with the following Baltimore-based organizations: Area 405, Current Space, EMP Collective, Enoch Pratt Library, Gallery CA, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Metro Gallery, Pent House Gallery, Terrault Contemporary, The 5th Dimension, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Creative Alliance, The Crown, The Holy Underground, The Maryland Film Festival, The Red Room Collective, The University of Baltimore and The Windup Space.

Sight Unseen is currently composed of Co-founder/Director, Margaret Rorison, and Assistant Director, Christopher Cheng. Co-founders/Directors, Lorenzo Gattorna and Kate Ewald, maintained their membership with Sight Unseen from 2012-14.

http://sightunseenbaltimore.com/

Another facet of my moving image practice is found in collaboration with my partner Mary Ancel. Coupled Vision presents our shared realizations through lyrical recordings of particular surroundings, which reflect on photosensitive materials regions during somewhat similar and drastically different timeframes. Together and apart, we seek to resolve the anxieties of an unstable age while constantly searching for the sublime in the real world. Within such retreat we investigate a sincere fascination with the human relationship to the empirical landscape. Our process is embedded in its medium, which allows us to capture specific memories; at the same time it is a way of presenting the phenomenal, which is all encompassing and certainly beyond our comprehension.

Our collaborative process has previously distinguished time-based mappings of the tourist trap of Montauk, the otherworldly state in New Mexico, the adjacent areas of Assateague Island and Ocean City as well as the familial nostalgia in Coming Home (Ancel) and Falling Out (Gattorna).

Coupled Vision was recently shown at the 2013 Sondheim Artscape Prize Semi-Finalists Exhibition and selected for the mIrrorspeak group show at EMP Collective, the Golden Mountain Exhibition at TULCA Visual Arts Festival and as a Semi-Finalist for the 2014 Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards.

For further details about Mary Ancel and her artwork please visit: http://mary-ancel.squarespace.com/.

16mm to digital, b/w, sound, 10:11

Jones Falls flows into Baltimore and becomes a small river as the expressway and railway run parallel within city limits. Its long history as a transportation corridor spans contamination from runoffs to environmental recovery movements. However, in a sea of human habitation, stormwater and sewage systems are in continual degradation. These affected areas still remain with much natural splendor despite manmade strife. After a precarious course, Jones Falls empties into the seemingly immaculate Inner Harbor as its main tributary. There is with strong reason to stay hopeful about the future health of Jones Falls. It is an astonishing conduit no matter concern for mesmeric or manufactured appeal.

Sound: Ryan Marino

Exhibitions:

October 31 - December 12
Art Maryland 2014
Howard County Center for the Arts
Ellicott City, MD

Screenings:

October 22, 2014
Waveland
Antimatter [Media Art]
Victoria, BC

September 27, 2014
NOT SO STATIC: Lorenzo Gattorna and Close Company
The Nightingale
Chicago, IL