Join us in the STUDIO on Thursday, September 18th at 5:30 PM for a lecture from the renowned experimental animator, Jodie Mack!

This talk will consider recent works and how animation illuminates the medium’s capacity to bring things to life. Using an omnivorous language of materials to approach animation as a site through which to consider grief, constant change, and transformation, these works uncover individual, collective, and ecological ghosts that resist taxonomical classification and the rigidity of natural history in favor of illuminating the ineffable. Drawing on spirit photography, the intersection of desire with beauty and capital, and the recurrence of patterns in the natural and made world, these works confront the animation’s capacity to engage with “objective knowledge,”  excavating ideas around continuous discontinuity and discontinuous continuity to ask: what is a ghost, a presence or an absence?

Bio:

Jodie Mack (born 1983; London, UK) is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.

Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.

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Get your tickets here for the screening at CMOA!

The renowned experimental animator joins us at Carnegie Museum of Art. This event is operated by Pittsburgh Sound + Image with co-sponsorship from the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is proud to present films by Jodie Mack, followed by in-person discussion.

 

• A Joy (2005)
• Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010)
• Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside (2010)
• Persian Pickles (2012)
• Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing (2013)
• Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013)
• Let Your Light Shine (2013)
• Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021)
• Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love (2025) (presented digitally)

 

All on16mm prints from Canyon Cinema. It all takes place on Friday, September 19th at Carnegie Museum of Art at 7 PM!

Total duration of the films is about 82 minutes.

Please note that some of these films include stroboscopic imagery.

Pittsburgh Sound + Image members on Patreon get free admission.