Kerry Laitala

Most Popular Kerry Laitala Trailers

Total trailers found: 22

Terra Firma Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

"Terra Firma" uses 35mm film material that I had laboriously* mastered from a 1908 nitrate print of a " Trip Down Market Street", incorporated with other found images of San Francisco’s built environment before the 1906 disaster.

Journey Into The Unknown Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

Abstract meditations upon temptation, murder and revenge. Hand-processed and optically printed film for your visceral pleasure.

Chromatic Wheels Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Pure shards of colorful light shimmers across the screen as the images are pulled through the projector like taffy in this abstract work that highlights the synthetic properties of the medium.

Figments in Film, Number One Trailer (2019)

01 January 2019

Creation and destruction. Grandiosity and hubris. Glory and The Abyss. These are some of the themes explored in Figments in Film, Number One, which features images from the PPIE while the buildings were in the process of being destroyed.

Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

Digital video in Chromadepth 3D. "The bubbly dayglo images and bleepy beats added a nice sacriligous feeling, since experimental film shows often feel like going to church.

Retrospectroscope Trailer (1997)

08 October 1997

"Kerry Laitala's love of the movie process gives rise to richly crafted and oddly unclassifiable imagery.

Orbit Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

Candy apple light emissions filmed at a Topsham, ME fair create a series of photic stimulating events that tickle the retinas.

Pin-up in 3D Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

Film/video hybrid in Chromadepth 3D.

Conquered Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Collaged entirely at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, this film comes from the depths of a submerged self.

Experiments in Terror Trailer (2003)

11 December 2003

A collection of short experimental horror films, some well-known, some not.

Phantogram Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

Shivery bits of elusive emulsion, refractive light sprays ignite the depths of two dimensions to expand the terrain of undulating forms.

Fire Fly EYE Trailer (2020)

22 August 2020

"Fire Fly EYE" is my response to the devastating re-making of the world brought on by anthropogenic climate change and corporate "stewardship" of our natural resources.

Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

“Motion/color/light studies shot in my studio” — Kerry Laitala ”The vibrant, abstract spirals of Kerry Laitala’s experiments with chromavision leap off the screen in pulsating 3-D.

The Cat Lands on All Fours Trailer (2026)

28 May 2026

The existential crises of our present moment in conversation with the unlikely magic of motion picture technology.

The Adventure Parade Trailer (2000)

31 December 2000

The inherent violence that is intimated at in this handprocessed film, can only offer a clue of past interventions.

Out of the Ether Trailer (2004)

16 January 2004

Out of the Ether re-assembles disquieting images from decades-old hygiene and science films, merging them with the filmmaker’s own Bolex camerawork.

Coming Attractions Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

Short film by Kerry Laitala.

The City Luminous: Electric Salome Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

Loie Fuller was a major innovator in fin-de-siècle dance, costuming and theatrical lighting design. Her Serpentine Dances became hugely popular, inspired dozens of imitators, and are best known today through the early films shot by the likes of W.

Knee Jerk Trailer (2018)

01 January 2018

Educational film material is hand-processed, manipulated, and recontextualized by the voices of women at the newest U.

Hallowed Trailer (2002)

01 January 2002

Hallowed portrays a mystical voyage made back in time by an unconscious woman in the throes of a cataleptic state.

The City Luminous: Spectacle of Light Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

In 1915 Walter D'Arcy Ryan induced explosions of color over the night sky as part of the Pan-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE), a presentation the likes of which had never been seen prior, and which became the model for light displays at future World's Fairs and illumination showcases.

Secure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade Trailer (1997)

08 October 1997

"Secure the Shadow" is a meditation on disintegration and morality. The film utilizes antique Medical stereoscopic images from the Victorian era, which are simultaneously disturbing and beautiful.