Screen/Society--Charlotte Pryce: Select Shorts | Duke Experimental Film Society

In partnership with the Duke Experimental Film Society, Screen/Society presents an evening of shorts by experimental filmmaker Charlotte Pryce.

CONCERNING FLIGHT: Five Illuminations in Miniature (2004, 8 min, sound, 16mm)
DISCOVERIES ON THE FOREST FLOOR 1-3 (2007, 4 min, silent, 16mm)
THE PARABLE OF THE TULIP PAINTER AND THE FLY (2008, 4 min, silent, 16mm)
A STUDY IN NATURAL MAGIC (2013, 3 min, silent, 16mm)
PRIMA MATERIA (2015, 3 min, silent, 16mm)
OF THIS BEGUILING MEMBRANE (2020, 4 min, sound, digital)
AND SO IT CAME ABOUT (A TALE OF CONSEQUENTIAL DORMANCY) (2023, 13 min, sound, digital)

Charlotte Pryce has been making films and optical objects since 1986 and her works have screened throughout the world. She has taught experimental film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Art Institute, the Academy of Art (San Francisco), Kent Institute of Design (Canterbury, England), and is currently a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). She is a graduate of the Slade School of Art, University College London (BFA) and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA). In 2013 the Los Angeles Film Critics Association honored her with the Douglass Edwards Award for best experimental cinema achievement. In 2019, she was honored with career retrospectives at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, Bozar (Brussels), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periferico.

"Brief glimpses of nature assembled into a beautiful, rhythmic montage of illusions that vanish like a dream" -- Doug Cummings, LA Weekly

"These brief illuminations do more than simply bring us closer to the natural world; they invite us to experience the world differently... they invite us into a space of reflection and re-imagining, uprooting fixities and challenging traditional ways of seeing." -- Kim Knowles