Christopher Harris

Christopher HARRIS works as an Associate Professor of cinema studies at the University of Central Florida. In his projects, he employs a variety of technical and formal approaches in his work including manually and photo-chemically altered appropriated moving images, staged reenactments of archival artifacts, interrogations of documentary conventions, hand-cranked cameras, rear-projection, optical printing and hand processing with high-contrast black-and-white film stock, solarization, shots of extreme duration and screen captured video. Harris’ films and installations have screened in festivals throughout the United States and Europe.
Filmography
(all short) still/here (2000), Reckless Eyeballing (2004), Sunshine State (Extended Forecast) (2007), 28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark) (2009), 28.IV.81 (Descending Figures) (2011), Distant Shore (2016), Halimuhfack (2016), Dreams Under Confinement (2020)
Christopher Harris at IFFR
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Dreams Under Confinement
A sobering, chilling mash-up of frantic Chicago Police audio messages with sinister Google Maps imagery.
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Sunshine State (Extended Forecast)
With both feet firmly on the ground, human existence is placed in the right proportions of the cosmos around us.
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Reckless Eyeballing
Taking its name from the Jim Crow-era of black criminals staring at white women, this hand-processed, optically-printed amalgam reframes desire by
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28.IV.81 (Bedouin Spark)
Close-up cinematography turns a simple object into a site of meditative, celestial beauty.