Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.
"Using found family photographs (mostly 35mm slides), I cracked open the family archive to generate imaginative and at times illogical narratives. "The Last Forever" (in collaboration with Polish filmmaker Kamila Kuc) unravels a story of a missing spouse a ...
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A succession of guilty souls is viewed through a mysterious portal as they are dispatched to eternal damnation. The clips are taken from the closing moments of the popular 1960s television show "Perry Mason", where the "true" murderer is unmasked and confe ...
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In a live double-16mm projector performance, Scott Stark feeds gorgeous Kodachrome found footage—from a 1950s promo doc about a fabled teen music camp near Stockton CA—into his propeller-driven projection system to generate a transformative visual spec ...
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An instructional video for a software development platform is illustrated with found family photos and musical accompaniment. ...
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Abstractions are gently lifted from the urban palette and are posited against shapes both organic and inorganic, in an ebb and flow of urban movement. A kind of breathing. Shot entirely on 16mm film. ...
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An instructional video for a software development platform is illustrated with found family photos and musical accompaniment. ...
Watch Now"Discarded Christmas trees, colorfully arranged flea-market finds, a museum of animal kills, microscopic views of kitchenware, and other overlooked cultural artifacts are interwoven with flickering journeys through mysterious, shadowy realms. Traces/Legacy ...
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Archival films from itinerant filmmakers who traveled the south in the 1930s through the 1950s are reworked, the footage presented as ghostly apparitions in modern urban Texas settings. ...
Watch NowScott Stark leads us through a dizzying array of consumerist goods in his stereoscopic mannequin melodrama The Realist. Composed of flickering still images, this entrancing romp conjures retail worlds both familiar and strange, in which chiselled mannequin ...
Watch NowIndustrial penetrations into the arid Texas landscape yield a strange and exotic flowering. Using images from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, based on oil drilling footage from the first half of the 20th century.. ...
Watch NowHand-printed sections from 35mm movie trailers create a chaotic and densely layered retelling of Hollywood form. Loosely about desire, fear of coupling, and the consequences of moving forward, with results both catastrophic and ecstatic. ...
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2012, digital video, color/sound, Cinemascope, 10 mins. Movements of bowlers in an American bowling alley form an arpeggio of sound and image against backgrounds of abstraction and calls for civic engagement. The hypnotic cutting threatens to break apart ...
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Worldly surfaces, shifting shadows and overlooked patterns: a series of short 35mm films generated from digital still images and printed onto movie film. The top and bottom half of each image alternate in the projector gate, arranged in a dizzying array of ...
Watch NowExcited football fans move through a visually kinetic space in slow motion toward their goal. ...
Watch NowCompressive/Percussive is a double-projector performance using two digital video projectors. The imagery is taken from a double-decker interstate freeway a few blocks from my current residence in Austin, Texas. At certain times of the day, this monstrous s ...
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Medical 3D photographs of human vulvae are interwoven with surfaces and textures in natural and human-made environments. ...
Watch NowA playful study of one of the U.S.A.'s most ubiquitous symbols, and an attempt to re-invent it as a thing of problematic beauty. Overlayed on top of the imagery are snippets of an email exchange I had with a person who was and remains a staunch apologist f ...
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"The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco. The time-lapse footage was optically printed onto 16mm film afterwards, and the double proj ...
Watch NowAll About The Illusion (2006) uses two synchronized cameras, one pointing forward and the other behind, to explore an abandoned train repair yard: a site of industrial neglect, decay, toxicity and new growth. The journey also becomes a shared experience of ...
Watch NowDriven attempts to blur the lines between video gaming and urban reality, finding in both a seductive resonance. ...
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In Shape Shift, Stark uses two cameras positioned opposite each other to reveal, as Stark writes, "a body transposed upon itself." In his boxers, Stark performs a simple and almost ritualistic dance sequence. He creates a "flicker" effect by rapidly switch ...
Watch NowMade with two parallel cameras, To Love or To Die is a brief binocular odyssey through a suburban wonderland of desire and fulfillment. ...
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Collection of 3d stills of people on the beach reprocessed for cinema ...
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More Than Meets The Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda is a remake of one of Jane Fonda's exercise videos, with Scott Stark as the performer, set in a variety of locations, both public and private. The filmmaker underscores a sense of the supposed embarrassment a ma ...
Watch Nowin.side.out is a very personal piece. On the surface it's about the changes taking place, over a two-year period, in an empty lot and a decrepit old building next to my house. Deeper down it's about the walls and windows between my interior and exterior se ...
Watch NowNOEMA is philosopher Husserl's term for "the meaning of an object that is formed in the domain of consciousness." Pornographic videos are mined for the unerotic moments between moments, when the actors are engaging in an awkward change of position or when ...
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A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work. A family's playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie camera, singing along as a group with Gene Autrey's title song in front of the camera, combines western fa ...
Watch NowUsing emergency information cards surreptitiously lifted from the backs of airline seats, I'll Walk with God pictorially charts an airline flight attendant's stoic transcendence through and beyond worldly adversity. Through an elaborate system of posturing ...
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A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains. The camera captures the reflections of passengers in the train windows as the trains enter and leave the station, and the movemen ...
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Two cats become visual elements as they are playfully dragged through fields of pattern and color, followed by a manic section of breathless vocalizing by the filmmaker. ...
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This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex musical architecture, developing intricate rhythms not unlike the complex syncopations found in traditional A ...
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A "filmed biography" of Kirk Douglas -- literally. Pages of a book -- the lines of text, and the tiny dots comprising the half-tone photographs -- create odd musical notes, which are edited into a pounding rhythm. This film examines the molecular fabric of ...
Watch NowRephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almost indiscernible complexity, until the lined background ruptures and the sounds and visuals become scattere ...
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A collage of human-created worldly surfaces - sidewalks, streets, storefronts - that evoke subtle and mysterious noises. "Chromesthesia" is a condition whereby one sees a color or shape and experiences a sensation of taste, smell or hearing. Preserved by ...
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"Probability" (1985) presents a series of handmade signs featuring wild headlines taken from the tabloid "Weekly World News". Stark temporarily intervenes into the everyday scene of a bustling corner of San Francisco's Financial District where he held a da ...
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The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environment, which is perhaps drawn by the camera itself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010. ...
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A silent film made completely in about 15 minutes on a partly cloudy day in San Francisco in 1982. With the 16mm Bolex camera mounted on a tripod, I wound the motor a single crank and ran as far as I could before the camera stopped (about 1 second). I retu ...
Watch NowMore Than Meets The Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda is a remake of one of Jane Fonda's exercise videos, with Scott Stark as the performer, set in a variety of locations, both public and private. The filmmaker underscores a sense of the supposed embarrassment a ma ...
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