INTERWOVEN INTERVALS (6 min, 4K, 2026)
IMAGE/EDIT/SOUND DESIGN - Laura Kraning
MUSIC COMPOSITION - Paula Matthusen & Olivia Valentine
A material hybrid of film and textile, as the intermediary device of a laser printer transcribes weaving patterns onto strips of 16mm clear leader, connecting the material process of handmade films with hand-crafted textile production. Pattern drafts are the graphical score for weaving - grids of light and dark representing the over and under of weft threads between the warps. The printer strains to align the image, as powdered toner smudges and fibers peel away like stray threads. The graphic repetition of grids, lines, and squares assert a structural form that is fragile and vulnerable to erasure. In the archeological record, textiles are often lost to time. Here, a new form emerges – grids of ink and plastic, flickering projected light and dark.
“Smudged grids and criss-crossing patterns, laser-printed on clear 16mm film leader, cascade in intricate moirés and stuttering geometries in Laura Kraning’s highly tactile film. Interwoven Intervals finds a new form between weaving, drawing, and cinema, intersecting graphic approaches to sound and film materials with the machinic manipulations of textile production, printing, and cinema.” - NYFF
“Weaving patterns become flickering cinema as grids, fibers, and geometric repetition slowly unravel into a fragile choreography of light, texture, and disappearance. An elegant meditation on labor, pattern, and the unstable boundary between image and material.” - CUFF
SELECTED SCREENINGS:
New York Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Elevation Film Festival
Antimatter Media Art
Engauge Experimental Film Festival
Cosmic Rays Film Festival