Caryn Cline

Caryn Cline

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Caryn Cline

Caryn Cline

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Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher who has been making films and videos for 20 years. She works with found footage, she shoots 16mm film and she creates handmade direct animation "botanicollage" films.

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Tri-Alogue #4 2020 (10)

A subtle movement of dancer’s arms invites three panels of film into one frame in this micro-symphony of sound and image in which the changing light evokes the passing of time. Human and non-human, interior and exterior co-exist in this highly improvisational yet serendipitous portrait of the forever-changing city of Seattle. Collaborating to subdivide a 16mm film frame into thirds, Caryn Cline, Linda Fenstermaker and Reed O’Beirne present their separately shot segments simultaneously within one spatial plane. From the interplay of these three points of view emerges a cinematic conversation based on a horizontal compositional logic within the shared frame. This combined connotative relationship between the subframes evokes a spectacle of fractured spatial and temporal perspective.
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Tri-Alogue #2 2017 (10)

By presenting three filmmakers’ work simultaneously within a single 16mm frame, Tri-Alogue #2 offers a complexity of perspective that undermines the omniscient cinematic gaze and evokes a deeper relational mystery. Collaborating to subdivide a 16mm film frame into thirds, three lmmakers present their separately-shot segments simultaneously within one spatial plane. From the interplay of these three points of view emerges a cinematic conversation based on a horizontal compositional logic within the shared frame.
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Botanicalistas 2011

“Botanicalistas” grew out of a workshop filmmaker and educator Caryn Cline taught at the Olympia Film Festival (November, 2010) on how to make handmade films using botanicals. The participants, all artists, were drawn to the haptic and kinesthetic in this approach to filmmaking. Each created several seconds of footage, working with clear or black leader and botanicals gleaned from his or her own environment.