Genres: experimental

  • Quanta

    Particles in space recorded during an afternoon on familiar waters. Quanta is an investigative record of patterns found in the observable Universe, as contained within the perceptions of a Bolex taken for an excursion in a rowboat. Special thanks to Ajla Odobasic.

  • Waterfilm

    Two film strips illuminated by passages of water: one aboard a ferry crossing the English Channel at day, the other on the banks of the Seine river at night. The soundtrack is generated directly by the projector ‘reading’ the images shot in Super-16mm.

  • Recomposition

    A short visual study of repeating layers; dissolving forms reemerge and return. Composed of thousands of animated still images, Recomposition is an early experiment in polyphonic image processing techniques developed by Browne over the course of a decade. Images of the urban landscape and its technological interventions on space merge with decaying natural forms and the tactility of human flesh, suggesting an erotic sensuality lurking beneath the surfaces of the material world.

  • Numbers

    Numbers was created during a trip to Manhattan, where I caught my self-reflection in a glass door that read ‘41’ after having photographed the number 42 earlier the same day, and subsequently continued hunting until I found everything else between 1 and 100. Dedicated to Hollis Frampton. – D.B.

  • memento mori

    A meditation on (im)mortality, mediated by a lifetime’s compendium of images, memento mori is a layered time-lapse exploration of the total photographs captured over the course of the filmmaker’s life – over 120,000 in total. This all-seeing archive is blended into permutations and combinations of subjects, objects, percepts, dreams, and experiences, to form an encyclopedic index of the possibilities of sight. “A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies,…

  • Setting West

    “Setting West” was made using original printing materials from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, such as wood type, borders and stereotypes of “Cowboys and Indians”, trains and bison. These words and images were printed directly onto 35mm clear film stock at eminent letterpress studios in North America: the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers, the Center for Book and Paper Arts in Chicago, the Hatch Show Print in Nashville and the Musée de l’imprimerie du Québec & Lovell Litho in Montréal. Judith Poirier printed 1643 feet of film to produce her abstract western and her…

  • Animals in Motion

    Between 1877 and 1885, an English photographer, Eadweard Muybridge, conducted detailed experiments analyzing human and animal motion using rapid photography. In 1968, John Straiton took the published works of Muybridge and created from them a fascinating and hilarious film. A tribute to the serious maker of the first nudie before the invention of movies.

  • Fashion

    “In ‘Fashion’ the form-fitting, black-and-white striped dress, shot originally in video and re-filmed off the screen, doubly references popular culture, the sixties of the dress style, and its reinstitution in eighties’ Black Label ads. “The fashion of the title is not only that of clothing, surface, but the stuff of which we are fashioned, our formative contexts, submerged, internalized mindsets. Belying the flat surface are layers. Text voices one layer of desire, ‘I want to make myself a victim, to be passive,’ as image resists it. She lies on her back, fists clenched. We don’t always want what we desire.…

  • Sister Drag

    Sister Drag is a part of an ongoing work about the invisible labour of women; “I can’t hear the sound of your sewing machine anymore” is a tribute to my mother, grandmother and to all the women who suffer from a constant bad conscience for not being good enough.

  • 13 Related Sewing Machines

    Synopsis Why can’t I hear the sound of sewing machines anymore? A meeting with my family and the history of all their sewing machines. German: Warum hören wir den Klang von Nähmaschinen nicht mehr? In dem Film 13 Related Sewing Machines stiften wir Bekanntschaft mit einer Familie, in der die Nähmaschine immer zugegen war. Der Film ist dritter Teil eines fortwährenden Projekts über unsichtbare Frauenarbeit. I can´t hear the sound of your sewing machine anymore ist eine Hommage an meine Mutter und meine Großmutter und an alle die Frauen, die ständig ein schlechtes Gewissen haben, nicht auszureichen.