Jodie Mack
Jodie MACK (1983, UK) earned an MFA in film, video and new media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is an independent filmmaker, experimental animator and curator and teaches animation. Mack’s abstract, handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema, storytelling and the tension between form and meaning. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life. She received the Helen Hill Award from the Orphan Film Symposium in New York in 2010. In 2014, IFFR screened a collection of five films in Shorts Special: Jodie Mack. She was a 2018/19 Fellow at the Film Study Center at Harvard University. In 2019, she was Artist In Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and she is an Associate Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.
Filmography
(all short) Untitled (for R.) (2003), Two-Hundred Feet (2003), Ebullition (2004), A Joy (2005), All Stars (2006), Mannequins Harlequin (2006), Lilly (2007), Yard Work is Hard Work (2008), Twilight Spirit (2009), I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2009), Harlequin (2009), Rad Plaid (2010), Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010), Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside (2010), Unsubscribe #2: All Eyes on the Silver Screen (2010), Unsubscribe #3: Glitch Envy (2010), Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World (2010), August Song (2011), The Future is Bright (2011), Point de Gaze (2012), Persian Pickles (2012), MackDash (2012), Blanket Statement #1: Home is Where the Heart is (2012), Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing (2013), Let Your Light Shine (2013), Glistening Thrills (2013), Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013), Undertone Overture (2013), New Fancy Foils (2013), Razzle Dazzle (2014), Something Between Us (2015), Curses (2016), Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (2017), Goody Goody (2017), Hoarders Without Borders (2018), The Grand Bizarre (2018), Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty (2019), Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021)
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Persian Pickles
High-speed cut and paste. Paisley patterns on 16mm film create a mildly hallucinatory trip with a very 1960s feel.
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Point de Gaze
16mm film of pleasing optical illusions created with various patterns of delicate lacework. The title refers to a typically Belgian type of lace.
Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project
Animated musical documentary examines the rise and fall of a nearly-defunct poster and postcard wholesale business. Cine-performance with live sing
Undertone Overture
‘Tie-dye’ method famous in the psychedelic era of the late 1960s used in a film study into colours and patterns in materials.
Glistening Thrills
RGB bling-bling. A shiny otherworld of holographic reverie pairs dollar store gift bags and haunting resound, unfolding an effervescent melancholy
New Fancy Foils
Paper sample books discarded and dumpstered by long-gone businesses undergo a series of sequential experiments in pattern, rhythm, colour and text(
Let Your Light Shine
Eye candy as a special treat. The ultimate photokinetic stroboscopic spectacle for spectacles. Requires prismatic glasses.
Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty
Captivating, handmade flicker film in which flower petals free themselves from melting ice cubes, setting hypnotically moving roots in motion.
Something Between Us
Abstract animation artist Jodie Mack created a choreographed motion study of light and costume jewelry without using a single frame of animation. R
Razzle Dazzle
Festival favourite Jodie Mack’s dazzling, abstract animation gives the illusion of glamour and glitter a new dimension.