de-composition (3 min, 4K, 2023)
A textural macro collage of a rust belt landscape- scratched, splattered, dripping, cracking, and bursting to the surface. Photographed and meticulously edited over one year in Buffalo, NY, the reverberant tones of the New York Central rail line provide the rhythmic pulse to a rapid cascade of multi-hued material decay and metallic de-composition.
AWARDS:
Jury’s Choice Award, 44th Annual Thomas Edison Film Festival
SELECTED SCREENINGS:
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Fisura International Experimental Film & Video
Aurora Picture Show, Extremely Shorts Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Braziers International Film Festival
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival
Antimatter Media Art
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image
Light Matter Film Festival
“de-composition activates the labor that cinema produces, making visible the way that decay permits the flourishing of new sensual possibility.” - Michael Sicinski
“de-composition finds abstract patterns of beauty at the same time that it speaks to the ephemerality of material surfaces. By looking outward at the micro-landscape of a rail line, Kraning addresses at once our understanding of material environments and the representation capacity of a specific medium, making this something of a bridge between her earlier environmental films and the traditions of experimental animations.” - Alex Fields
”Kraning’s eye captures a micro-world of degeneration and finds true beauty in the process. Often, the corrosion appears like a painting or some gorgeous mineral display. Some of the most exciting moments of the film see Kraning rapidly cut between two rusted surfaces, posing them as if in conversation with each other. With Kraning’s sense for dynamism, ordinary bolts perform a choreographed dance and grates come alive to the appropriately soundtracked trains chugging by on steel rails. “ - Joshua Peinado