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- You are here: Home > AMARYLLIS – A STUDY
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Friday, November 27, 2020 - 21:00
Cinematography:
JAYNE PARKER
Editing:
JAYNE PARKER
Producer:
JAYNE PARKER
At first glance, nothing happens in AMARYLLIS. But look again. A poetic and gentle study of amaryllis flowers, JAYNE PARKER's film demands more attention than we are often willing to give to the screen. This little ode to color on 16mm film is not a calophilic exercise, but a whole cinematic translation of people's fascination with plants, their pigments, millimeter movements, reactions to light. PARKER takes what we are used to seeing in the background and brings it to the forefront, actually arousing a paradox – the realization of an "anti-film" through deep cinematic practices. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
JAYNE PARKER is a British artist and film-maker. She studied sculpture at Canterbury College of Art and Experimental Media at the Slade, where she is now Head of Graduate Fine Art Media. Her films have been shown in art galleries and museums in the UK and internationally, as well as at cinemas and film festivals, music festivals and on television. In 2003 she was the recipient of the 1871 Fellowship hosted by the Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford and the San Francisco Art Institute, researching the relationship between music and film.
Contact:
LUX
Festivals, awards:
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2020
“Finally, for pure sensual pleasure – and more botanical richness – we need to talk about JAYNE PARKER’S AMARYLLIS, a wondrous 16mm that floods us with the joy of red. In studying the amaryllis flower, named for the passionate girl of Greek myth, Parker gives us such brilliant, heart-stopping reds that I was reminded of cinema’s greatest uses of pigment, from the Kinemacolor pictures of the 1910s to the saturated Technicolor of Allan Dwan’s SLIGHTY SCARLET. I have to say: I don’t get Rothko, I don’t really get Delacroix, but for me, blazing color on film is the best thing there is.” (Lesley Chow, Bright Lights Film Journal)