The Edge of Summer
A girl falls in love with the sun. Stereoscopic 16mm film with handmade polarized 3D mirror system.
4min 40sec // 2008
Graduate Thesis Screening & Installation
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA // 2008
Experimental Film Festival Portland
Portland, OR // 2012
Indie Grits Film Festival
Columbia, SC // 2012
Strange Beauty Film Festival
Durham, NC // 2012
UFVA New Media Exhibit/Performance
Columbia College, Chicago, IL // 2012
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI // 2013
Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival
Gainesville, FL // 2013
Iowa Film MaFiA - Contraband Cinema
Atlanta, GA // 2013
Women With Knives Film Tour
Asheville, NC - Columbia, SC - Gainesville, FL - Atlanta, GA - Durham, NC - Athens, OH - Baltimore, MD - Philadelphia, PA - Holyoke, MA - New York City, NY // 2014
BRCC Faculty Art Show
Flat Rock, NC // 2015
Screening History
Multiplane Stereoscopy
This 14’ animation stand was designed to hold multiple layers of silhouette animation at different depths for the stereoscopic film.
All my notes on the process live in my graduate thesis manuscript. I’d recommend building stairs or a more efficient way of getting to the higher levels than climbing the stand like scaffolding. I’d also recommend layers closer together for stereoscopy (and further from the focal plane than the upper levels were).
Handmade Optics
The beam splitter is two mirrors on pivots so you can change the convergence point and align the left and right image. I shot and project the film through the same optical system - only in projection 90degree offset polarizing filters cover the left and right eye image.
Silhouette Animation
Modeled after designs from Lotte Reiniger’s canonical silhouette puppetry text, Shadow Puppets, Shadow Theatres, and Shadow Films, the characters are made from recycled cereal boxes and poster board spray painted black. The backgrounds are made of colored cellophane and acetate, as well as hand painted transparency sheets. The film was shot on color 16mm film and is played with diy double system stereoscopic sound.