Project Space Artist Residency

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator and an Associate Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and meaning. Musical documentary or stroboscopic archive: her films study domestic and recycled materials to illuminate the elements shared between fine-art abstraction and mass-produced graphic design. The works unleash the kinetic energy of overlooked and wasted objects and question the role of decoration in daily life. 

 

Still from The Grand Bizarre (2018) by Jodie Mack, 16mm, 60m30s, color, sound ©Jodie Mack, courtesy of the artist

 

This program is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts; the National Endowment for the Arts; the Max and Marian Farash Foundation; and Joy of Giving Something.