Charlotte Pryce
Filmography
(all short) X (1988), Cold Polished Pictures – Disturbed (1992), Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature (2004), Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 (2007), The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly (2008), Curious Light (2011), Looking Glass Insects (2013), A Study in Natural Magic (2013), W.H. Hudson's Remarkable Argentine Ornithology (2013, performance), Micrographia (2014, instal), Prima Materia (2015), The Tears of a Mudlark (2018, performance), Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars (2019)
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Charlotte Pryce at IFFR
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3
4'
USA
IFFR 2008
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
4'
USA
IFFR 2009
Curious Light
4'
USA
IFFR 2012
A Study in Natural Magic
3'
USA
IFFR 2014
Concerning Flight: Five Illuminations in Miniature
The mystery of insect flight explored. Interpretations of a mythological and fantastical nature are illuminated in motion and time.
8'
USA
IFFR 2019
Curious Light
Lewis Caroll’s Through the Looking-Glass illuminated. Illustrations retreat into the fibre of the page, light dissolves into the film emulsion.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3
Fragile leaves and fine threads of fungus string together, like an obscure genre of 17th century painting: Forest Floor Paintings.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Looking Glass Insects
This play of observation scans Lewis Caroll's Through the Looking-Glass with magnifying glasses, used by both entomologists and filmmakers alike.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
The Parable of the Tulip Painter and the Fly
An intoxicating flower drenched in luminous colours and sparkling light. Such luxurious and temporary beauty shows the transience of life.
4'
USA
IFFR 2019
Prima Materia
Delicate threads of energy spiral into mysterious cells of golden dust: these are the luminous particles of the alchemist’s dream.
3'
USA
IFFR 2019
Pwdre Ser: the rot of stars
An encounter with a mysterious, luminous substance and the mythical star jelly. Coronal Kirlian photography joined with hand-processed images.
7'
USA
IFFR 2019
A Study in Natural Magic
Glowing germs and flowers colour this alchemical 16mm miniature. Pryce spins gossamer golden threads in the silent darkness of the cinema.
3'
USA
IFFR 2019
The Tears of a Mudlark
Live performance with vintage magic lantern and handmade slides tells the story of an outlaw: a science-fiction fable for the Anthropocene.
20'
USA
IFFR 2019
W.H. Hudson’s Remarkable Argentine Ornithology
Live performance with vintage magic lanterns and handmade slides tells the tale of famed naturalist Hudson's spellbinding recollection of birds.
15'
USA
IFFR 2019
X
Collage of paintings from the Renaissance, combined with hand-painted images. A portrait of stillness and silence, disturbed by the urgency of sadness.
6'
USA
IFFR 2019