Legendary psychedelic animator Jodie Mack visits Pittsburgh for the first time to share her films, sing karaoke, and blow your mind! Join us for a sampler platter of her filmmaking career:
- A Joy (2005)
- Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010)
- Unsubscribe #1: Special Offer Inside (2010)
- Persian Pickles (2012)
- Blanket Statement #2: All or Nothing (2013)
- Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Live Performance Version) (2013)
- Let Your Light Shine (2013)
- Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021)
- Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love (2025) (presented digitally)
On 16mm prints from Canyon Cinema. It all takes place on Friday, September 19th at Carnegie Museum of Art at 7 PM!
Total duration of the films is about 82 minutes.
Please note that some of these films include stroboscopic imagery.
Pittsburgh Sound + Image members on Patreon get free admission. Students and faculty take half off with code “edu”!
Presented in conjunction with CMU’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, which will be hosting Mack for an artist lecture on Thursday, September 18th.
ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
Jodie Mack (born 1983; London, UK) is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.
Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.
