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Paul Clipson was a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborated with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. He recently premiered Hypsosis Display, a feature-length sound/16mm film collaboration with Grouper in the United Kingdom.
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Most Popular Paul Clipson Trailers
Total trailers found: 67
01 January 2005
Super 8 films by Paul Clipson. Sound by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma.
13 August 2012
Short experimental film by Paul Clipson
01 January 2007
Automatic-writing on film, using double exposures, macro imagery, dissolves, and in-camera editing to create a dream collage of Los Angeles, from the perspective of a plane and an arachnid dancing between water and sun.
01 January 2007
Short film by Paul Clipson.
01 August 2012
The Crystal Text is a fleeting, poetic impression of the the fragmented emotional world of Young Moon's music.
01 June 2014
This film, for a track by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, was directed by Paul Clipson, who interprets the stuttering ambient composition with busy, bursting edits of a young woman walking on a sun-drenched beach.
22 March 2012
Orpheus meets the bird with the crystal plumage.
31 March 2013
A nervous portrait of a Zagreb train station filmed from the tracks. The imminent impact leads to seeing stars.
01 September 2015
A study of surfaces figurative and metaphysical, with various levels and planes of a city combined and superimposed to become visual echoes, suggesting an animated city surface of grids, graphs, geometries and lines: layers of subterranean streets and shadows evoking multiple levels of consciousness.
01 January 2011
Filmmaker Paul Clipson's underlying attraction to things that elude the touch finds its apotheosis in the translucent thread of the spider's web, contrasted here against the grey solidity of a factory building.
20 February 2007
A film by Paul Clipson.
04 April 2018
A black-and-white short film made in collaboration with Sarah Davachi.
01 January 2006
The light and water of wintertime, viewed at 35,000 feet, over the U.S., somewhere between the East and West coasts.
22 February 2010
An exploration of movement, woven into layers of time, and photographed in natural and nocturnal urban spaces, ambiguous within a confluence of lights, colors and darkness.
01 January 2011
Where the other films in Paul Clipson's COMPOUND EYES cycle relate natural and constructed environments through cutting, the liquid CARIDEA AND ICHTHYES uses superimpositions to float various fish and crustaceans in a brilliant neon sea.
01 January 2007
A short avant-garde film by Paul Clipson.
22 October 2012
Taped live at Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA
01 January 2007
Propulsive in-camera editing sends this nature collage deep into the embraces of dandelions.
03 May 2016
16mm | color | filmed in San Francisco | music by Young Moon
22 February 2012
A film by Paul Clipson.
06 November 2015
Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway.
01 October 2008
Super 8mm, 21 min., color and b&w, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
17 February 2015
Director Paul Clipson's 16mm black-and-white video for "Come On" by Ilyas Ahmed uses double exposure to lay street lights over sidewalks, make leaves look as if they were printed on silver gelatin, and layer shadows upon shadowy figures in puddles and windows.
01 January 2014
Tracking shots of streets, alleys, walls, fences, and city landscapes are superimposed on top of each other moving in opposite directions - a moving collage of spaces passing themselves by.
01 January 2011
Fully exercising the transformative potential of the close-up, Paul Clipson brings us face-to-face with the beguiling strangeness of a bee drawing nectar and a butterfly working its wings.
21 February 2006
A film by Paul Clipson.
01 January 2010
A hallucinatory synthesis of nightscapes, focusing on colors, textures, and forms of light, viewed and traversed in several rhythmic movements.
01 January 2006
Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.
20 October 2017
Inspired by the “psychic and physical toxicity of life in late capitalism,” Evan Caminiti’s Toxic City Music utilizes sounds sourced from daily life in NYC.
08 September 2011
Commissioned by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, Paul Clipson's five-part COMPOUND EYES cycle delves into the otherworldliness of the natural world.
22 February 2012
A film by Paul Clipson.
30 August 2011
Experimental short film by Paul Clipson
01 January 2008
Film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma.
01 January 2011
Paul Clipson's Super-8 study of dragonflies draws close enough to grasp their carnivorousness (as "odonata" is rooted in the Greek word for "tooth").
21 February 2006
A film by Paul Clipson.
10 July 2014
Clipson, like some reckless traveller driven by a Mabusian force, takes us on a journey, hypnotically guiding us through a realm of dreams that seems to consist solely of light, shapes and colours.
10 February 2014
A commission for the San Francisco Exploratorium, this film-collage studies the water systems and architecture of the San Francisco waterfront, in abstract and formal contexts.
22 February 2013
A film by Paul Clipson.
04 January 2017
A dreamy, impressionistic 16mm film of light on water, comprised mostly of sepia tones.
20 September 2014
Exploring impressionistic, emotional and sensory environments found within the vast natural and urban landscapes of America.
01 January 2013
An attempt through improvised in-camera multiple exposure, to capture a heightened, altered state, whether it be anxiety attack, hallucination or vision of madness.
02 May 2014
Music by Austin Cesear, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.
09 May 2017
Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, 16mm color film by Paul Clipson.
10 November 2014
Super 8mm film by Paul Clipson. Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
01 January 2004
Super 8mm film by Paul Clipson. Music by Tarentel.
12 March 2016
Mayrah is a film made from a time last summer while in Sidney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia was such an intense flurry of impressions, movements and environments, that the film took the form of a stone skipping across moments of this time: a series of visual memories, the surface of which both reflected some brief abstract and literal elements of my experience.
01 January 2006
Super 8mm by Paul Clipson. Sound by Jefre Cantu Ledesma.
01 January 2008
Super 8mm, 21 min., b&w, music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
01 February 2013
'As for Paul’s case, what fascinated him through his camera—moving through space, often with a macro lens and the rack focus, the focus is shifting non-stop as his gaze moves along—his perception of the world itself became the subject of his film.
01 January 2011
"Ephemeris" (2011) is a conversation of image and sound, between filmmaker Paul Clipson and electronic musician Aki Onda, rendered as if from a fragmented journey of landscapes and memories.
02 March 2017
Music by Byron Westbrook, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.
15 May 2014
Paul Clipson puts us on the beach, just before fall, when summer is still present—a time we have a hard time realizing is still here because we know what comes next.
21 January 2009
SPHINX ON THE SEINE is a film poem: the beginning of a metaphysical journey, musing on a series of brief, but enigmatic images taken from around the world.
02 July 2016
Filmed in the Botanical Gardens of Golden Gate Park and the San Francisco Bay. 16mm scope / anamorphic film, Color / B&W .
27 June 2016
16mm film by Paul Clipson, and music by Sarah Davachi. Filmed in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Brisbane, Krakow, Sidney, Portland, Napa, Oakland and San Francisco.
23 July 2010
"Light from the Mesa" from Barn Owl's album Ancestral Star.
20 February 2017
Music by Lawrence English, 16mm film by Paul Clipson.
01 January 2009
Three cities by night become one in this nocturnal journey through images and sounds in which space, color and light pass through the eye of the camera to create thoughts visualized before their conception.
28 October 2014
A dream lament for a drowned world. Filmed in London, Zurich, San Francisco, Berkeley and Napa. Music by Grouper.
08 May 2012
Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma. Film by Paul Clipson with Trevor Montgomery.
