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Janis Crystal Lipzin

 

current show

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My artist book, Autumn Stratum,  will be exhibited in the C O N T E N T Artist Book show at the Artery Gallery in Davis, California from September 1 - 25, 2023.
©2019 unique hand-made artist book in accordion flag format. 
12 archival pigments prints on transparency film, vellum, & Rives BFK paper.  Dimensions: 11.9 in x 6.9 in. closed. 10 in long open.


new micro book 

a micro-book companion to Some Mistakes I Have Made containing 21 images from the film is now available HERE
at the San Francisco Cinematheque online shop
​and HERE
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at the Shapeshifters Cinema online shop
​ Issued in an edition of 8;   all copies signed and numbered by the artist.  2.5 x 3.75 inches softbound
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note cards depicting images from my​ Improbable Hybrids and Botanical Exposures photo series are now available at Shapeshifters Cinema online store of artist-made goods in Oakland here:
shop.shapeshifterscinema.com/collections/hand-made-goods/products/note-cards-by-janis-crystal-lipzin



recent shows
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My digital film De Luce 1: Vegetare was  screened at WORM in Rotterdam on May 24, 2023 in the Cinema Chloroplast program curated by Georgiana Barcan, a Romanian programmer based in the Netherlands. The show  "traced a tradition between vegetal beings and film, since plants were some of the first subjects to be shown in moving images. I think there is also a beautiful parallel between photosynthesis and film projections, how both are about a certain distribution of light, and how we as the viewers are the ones to absorb the light of the screen. Nonetheless, plants deserve more than an anthropocentric analysis, therefore I would like to dedicate an evening to them." GB.
 
https://worm.org/production/film-cinema-chloroplast/

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​3 Seasons of 2021  streamed online during 2022 in the 9th Annual New Year/New Work Festival of the Film-Makers Cooperative.  Original musical soundtrack by Rob Stephenson.  Watch an online discussion among the festival filmmakers here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKj7swqjQC4&t=1666s.
​ I discuss my film starting  at 25:37.

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This Improbable Hybrid photo "Blue Sky Iris" was sold at the Bakery Collective Photo Auction, Photo A Go-Go which happened Friday, December 9, 2022,, at Maine Studio Works 170 Anderson St. Portland, Maine. .https://www.bakeryphotocollective.org
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​My two videos,
Ontogeny,   and  Covert Ciné were screened November 26 - 27, 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam in the Satellite Program of the Saigon Experimental Fi lm  Festival. watch it HERE:  https://vimeo.com/770008954
"Ontogeny portrays the first-time blooming of a thirty-year old organ pipe cactus and the flower’s gradual decay to explore themes that are central to all living beings: mortality, ephemerality, ...Ontogeny uses a flow of painstakingly composed stills and images in motion to convey the paradox of how death is part of life, and of the beauty inherent in the entire life and death cycle.”--- Steve Anker in “An Anatomy of Live Cinema” in Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music & Expanded Cinema Art. 2022, 2022

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​Covert Ciné  is a reverie prompted by the sale of my father's final home on Covert Lane, created from hand-processed super-8 film and cell phone video.  watch it ​HERE

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 The World Premiere of  my latest digital film, ​Ontogeny, took place in the  Crossroads 2022 Festival produced by the San Francisco Cinémathêque at Gray Area in the Mission District of San Francisco on Saturday August 27, 2022 .

Several moving image-maker friends also shared their work on this program  #4  entitled "Before You Witnessed This Entropy." 
During the worst drought in decades and in the summer of the second year of the pandemic, my thirty-year-old organ pipe cactus finally bloomed.  Ontogeny exposes a startling display as the cactus develops from flower to fruit, “the pink-tipped sepals peeling back millimeter by millimeter until… it retreats and shrivels, a ball gown turned to rags.” JC Lipzin citing Ligaya   Mishan, "The Ephemeral Beauty of Night-Blooming Flowers," NY Times Magazine, Oct. 11, 2021.
                                                                                                            

Some Mistakes I Have Made  recent screenings


the Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle  November 4, 2022.    Engauge only screens work that originated on celluloid film.
the ​25th Anti Matter Media Art Festival in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada from October  21,  2022
5th Photometria in Motion​ International Photography Exhibition,  in Ioannina, Greece , October 2, 2022.

Some Mistakes I Have Made  was screened in the non-syntax Experimental Image Festival in Taipei   daily in the Obscure Mediation Program from June 24 - 28, 2022 at the Roof Light Space.
103, Taiwan, Taipei City, Datong District, Gangu St, 10號7樓

 Gravity Spells II: Bay Area New Music and Expanded Cinema Art Publication Launch and Performance Series  presented ​Some Mistakes I Have Made  with new original live music by Molly Fishman with Janis Crystal Lipzin on May 22  in San Francisco at The Lab.  A replay of this event is available starting at 1:07:51 HERE
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1491503664
Some Mistakes I Have Made streamed from May 9- 23, 2022 in the free online Experiments in Cinema Festival HERE
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The first public screening of my digital film Some Mistakes I Have Made  was an in-theater  screening   December 1, 2021 at the Pacific Film Archive  in the program PERSISTS, RESISTS, EXISTS in the series  
   New Time: the Future is Feminist https://bampfa.org/event/persists-resists-exists
with 6 other short films which share a materialist approach to 21st century feminism.
Picturestill frame from Some Mistakes I Have Made. 19 min. digital film. Click on the image to view excerpts from the film



"engaging and dense imagery,
full of life, melancholy,
and nostalgia"*


  *That's what the Thomas Edison Film Festival called ​Some Mistakes I Have Made in awarding it Honorable Mention in the 41st 2022 TEFF .  Watch it here:  ​https://www.blackmariafilmfestival.org/winners.php
 Some Mistakes I Have Made was an Official Selection of the 45th Big Muddy Film Festival and was on view in the University Gallery of Southern Illinois University, Carbondate, Illinois from Feb. 1 - March 12, 2022 in an exhibition of film installations commemorating the history of the festival:  Moods of Modernity.  http://www.bigmuddyfilmfestival.com/big-muddy-at-the-siu-museum/https://museum.siu.edu

On October 24, 2021 at the Pacific Film Archive Shut Out the Sun was screened  in conjunction with the  Berkeley Art Museum exhibition New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century
watch Shut Out the Sun
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Shut Out the Sun
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Micro-Celluloid Incidents in 4 Santas

more news 
I’m excited to announce a collaboration with the online film streaming service Kinoscope which aims to enhance the appreciation and understanding of film as an art form globally among diverse audiences. My digital film, Micro-Celluloid Incidents in 4 Santas,is now available  for viewing on the Kinoscope platform in the Canyon Cinema Collection, which envisions a broad range of West Coast landscapes through varied methods. 
http://bit.ly/ccf-kinoscope


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