Caryn Cline
(United States)

Originally from the Missouri Ozarks, Caryn Cline is a filmmaker and teacher who has been making films and videos for 20 years. She works with found footage, she shoots 16mm film on a hand-cranked Bolex camera, and she also creates handmade direct animation “botanicollage” films. “Botanicollage” is a term she coined to describe the technique of creating direct animation films using botanical elements. Stan Brakhage pioneered these techniques in films such as Mothlight and Garden of Earthly Delights.

For Caryn, the kinesethic and haptic qualities of the materials and the process are important aspects of her filmmaking. She often picks site-specific plant materials— from the Conservatory in Volunteer Park in her Seattle neighborhood (In the Conservatory); from Riverside Park in Manhattan (Left Side, Riverside); from the Film Farm in Mount Forest, Ontario (Notes from the Farm); from a prairie restoration site in Missouri (All Grass is Flesh)—to work with. She’s particularly drawn to “weeds” and everyday plants that possess astonishingly beautiful qualities when viewed up close, plants such as shepherd’s purse or milkweed.

In addition to her direct animation work, Caryn also employs found footage, usually with various interventions—scratching, bleaching, and double-exposing or bi-packing with other materials. Her recent experimental documentary films, shot in and around Seattle, involved collaborations with other filmmakers. Besides making films, she teaches handmade “botanicollage” film workshops and is the co-founder and -curator of the Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle, Washington.


Photo: Jennifer Griffith

Films
Filmography
butterfly disaster
2019
Light Coins
2018
Trahere
2018
An Optical Printer Duet
2017
We Will Not Be Silent
2017
Lost Winds
2017
All Flesh is Grass
2017
Tri-Alogue # 1-3
2016 - 2017
Hand-made
2016
Ektacy
2015
Notes from the Farm
2014
Compost Confidential
2012
Equinox
2011
Left Side, River Side
2011
Botanicalistas
2010
In the Conservatory
2010
Compost Confidential
2010
Lucy’s Terrace
2009
Seattle Solstice
2008
Perchance
2008
Cycle
2006
Recipe
2001
The More You Do It
1991
Tatum's Tune
1991

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