FAVA FEST 2019

I was inspired to make Aurora because of my passion for kaleidoscopes and the kaleidoscopic image. This abstract film is an extension of some of my previous works – in film school I created a short piece with a lipstick camera and remapped the images, and my first film out of film school was a dance film called Dance of the Kaleidoscope. My goal in making Aurora was to use one kaleidoscope and three different film formats: Super 8, S16 & 35. I wanted to see how visually different they looked and I wanted to create a piece that brought the viewer to another place. I worked with cinematographer aAron munson and we placed each camera on one end of the kaleidoscope, and then placed a light at the other end. Once we were rolling, we turned the kaleidoscope at different speeds and for different lengths of time. With the S16 we used various lenses. Once I edited the piece together, I worked with Paul Morgan Donald who composed and did the sound design. My influences for sound were Tangerine Dream, Philip Glass, and Canadian composer Andrew Staniland. It is my goal to expand working with kaleidoscopes and the moving image into a video installation in the near future.

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