Hypnosis display is an original live sound and 16mm film collaboration between experimental vocalist and musician Grouper and filmmaker Paul Clipson.
The Exploratorium has commissioned San Francisco-based filmmaker Paul Clipson to create an abstract 16mm film study of the area surrounding our new downtown waterfront site at Pier 15. The film showcases Clipson's extraordinary treatment of the complex natural and cultural systems in the urban landscape, from the ephemeral rhythms of light and water to the rigid order of crossw...
An exploration of movement, woven into layers of time, and photographed in natural and nocturnal urban spaces, ambiguous within a confluence of lights, colors and darkness.
Paul Clipson works primarily in film, video and on paper, collaborating on films, live performances and installations with sound artists and musicians, projecting largely improvised in-camera edited experime...
Sphinx on the Seine is a film poem: the beginning of a metaphysical journey, musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world. These images follow one after the other, but geographically span thousands of miles and large passages of time between each cut.
Another Void
Paul Clipson 2012
USA | Format: Super 8 transferred to 16mm | color | sound | 10:30 minutes
Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
Orpheus meets the bird with the crystal plumage. Filmed in the Tenderloin night of San Francisco, this drip painting, contour drawing, cubist collage Super-8 film study of vertiginous color and darkness, broadens and intensifies an on-going explo...
COMPOUND EYES Nos.1-5 is a series of short Super 8mm film studies studying aspects of insect and animal life, viewed within a succession of environments in unexpected ways. Filmed in the Golden Gate Park Botanical Gardens, Academy of Arts & Sciences and San Francisco. This presentation features a live musical score by Matthew De Gennaro.
COMPOUND EYES (No. 1) - 7 min.; A macro...
A study of movement, color and form in nature and the non-natural environments.—Paul Clipson
