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(2011 • Running Time: 4:08)
Director/producer/animator: Karen Aqua
Music & Sound Design: Ken Field
Technical Assistant: Julie Zammarchi
With support from: Roswell Artist-In-Residence Program &
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico |
| The animal, vegetable,
and mineral kingdoms reside in a state of constant flux,
reflecting a world of transience, mutability, and impermanence.
Through the metaphor of transformation, this film explores
the themes of malleability, instability, and interconnectedness. |
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| Twist of Fate |
(2009 • 8 minutes 40 seconds)
Soundtrack: Ken Field
Music: Birdsongs of the Mesozoic with Encanti |
| This 35mm experimental
animated film explores the transformative experience of
being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. This
expressionistic piece captures impressions of such an
experience: upheaval, uncertainty, a sense of physical
intrusion, and loss of control. Exploring this emotional
and physical landscape, the film visualizes an internal
world inside the body, imagined on a cellular level. |
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| Sensorium |
(2007 • 5 minutes)
Co-directed/co-produced
by Karen Aqua & Ken Field
Animation: Karen Aqua
Music: Ken Field |
| A hand-drawn experimental
animation exploring the relationship between music and
image. Inspired by dance gestures and movements found
in nature such as water and tide pools, the film is a
study of sound/motion synthesis. An alphabet of abstract
animated and musical gestures combines in various configurations
to create a visible rhythm. |
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| Andaluz |
(2004 • 6 minutes)
Collaboration
with Joanna Priestley
Music: Juanito Pascual |
| A traveler’s love
letter to Andalucía, this animated film is an homage
to the culture, landscape, and architecture of southern
Spain. The film explores details of the natural world
in relation to the four elements, and suggests the close
relationship between people and the land which they inhabit. |
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| Ground Zero/Sacred Ground |
(1997 • 9 minutes)
Music: Ken Field |
| In south-central New
Mexico, an ancient Native American rock art site lies
35 miles from the detonation site of the world’s
first atomic bomb. The juxtaposition of these sites points
to the striking contrast between the two worlds which
created them: one which reveres and lives in harmony with
the natural world, and one which, in striving to control
the forces of nature, has created a means for its destruction. |
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| Perpetual Motion |
(1992 • 5 minutes)
Music: Ken Field |
| A shrine to ritualized
time. This film celebrates the cyclical nature of time,
and the symbols and rites which have been created to mark
and honor its passage. |
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| Kakania |
(1989 • 4 minutes)
Music Composed by: Karlo Takki
Music Performed by: Skin |
| A striking blend of
music and image, contrasting the tension and chaos of
modern urban life with the ritualized order of tribal
societies. |
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| Nine Lives |
(1987 • 7 minutes)
Music: Ken Field, Robert Moses, Ken Winokur |
| A fortune teller’s
cards lead the viewer on a journey through time and collective
memory, using the metaphor of a cat’s multiple lives. |
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| Yours for the Taking |
(1984 • 7 minutes)
Collaboration with clay artist Jeanée Redmond
Music: D. Sharpe |
| A three-legged cup embarks
on a journey, filling itself with images and impressions
of its surroundings. |
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| Vis-á-Vis |
(1982 • 12 minutes)
Music: Jacques Dorier |
| An autobiographical
fantasy, depicting the duality of an individual torn by
conflicting desires. A reflection of the reconciliation
between work and the creative imagination. |
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| Heavenly Bodies |
(1980 • 3 minutes)
Music: Handsome Brothers |
| An astronomical love
story. |
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| Penetralia |
(1976 • 4 minutes)
Music: Fla Lewis and Ken Field |
| A person’s internal
journey to the penetralia, the innermost place. |
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