Rachel Strickland Movie Trailers

Rebuilding an Old Japanese House Trailer (1981)

01 December 1981

Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum.

The Flower of Pain Trailer (1983)

01 January 1983

A semi-autobiographical film about an adolescent relationship, about emotional illiterates of a particular age and milieu.

Casting Sand Flying Glass Trailer (2023)

01 October 2023

A sculpture by artist Katie Paterson and architectural studio Zeller & Moye, Mirage consists of 448 cast glass cylinders that were made of sands collected from 70 deserts around the Earth.

For The Birds Trailer (2012)

08 January 2012

Semiotics is For Cinema as Ornithology is For the Birds

Solstice and Solyanka Trailer (1975)

04 January 1975

Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appearance, are Robert Breer, John Terry, Steve Ascher, Richard Leacock, Jon Rubin, Frank Daniel, Ed Emshwiller, Ann McIntosh, Terry Lockhart, Standish Lawder, Jerome Liebling.

Palladio Potatoes Piano Piano: Building a Villa in 29 Scenes Trailer (2008)

02 January 2008

2005-2008. Video. In 2005 San Francisco real estate magnate Angelo Sangiacomo commissioned Strickland to make a movie that would chronicle final stages in the construction of his new house in Pebble Beach, CA.

Folia Trailer (2015)

07 January 2015

Calculating how short-duration cinema might set about to examine the experience of a tree that plays out in year-long cycles, this 24-minute video experimented with polylinear construction and polytemporal scaling of sound and image that were recorded during one 24-hour slice of street life in the span of a city block.

Olive for Steve Trailer (2022)

09 January 2022

At a streetcorner in San Francisco's Mission district, on February 12, 2022, Friends of the Urban Forest planted a tree to honor the memory of Steve Gano.

Unnamed Work in Progress Trailer (2016)

19 January 2016

Jim Campbell's sculptural installation for Cowles Commons in Des Moines consists of 8000 LED's that chase one another around 9 elliptical rings suspended above the plaza.

Soundsurround Trailer (2006)

26 February 2006

Just when twilight gathers the day's lingering colors, fresh air musicians can be overheard in the process of nocturnal arrangements, and musical scales swell the space where cars had parked from 9 to 5.

Dramatis Personae: Everyday Lives of Java Developers Trailer (2002)

03 January 2002

Who is a Java developer? How would you know if you met one on the street? What is the picture of a software engineer’s work practice over the course of a day? What resources, inspirations, and artifacts do they employ, in what states of mind, with what concentration and how many parallel processes over what periods of time? What are their algorithms for troubleshooting and information finding? In the interest of learning about processes of the developer’s art, Sun Microsystems commissioned Strickland to undertake a series of video portraits.

Shuffled Stories Trailer (1990)

09 January 1990

SHUFFLED STORIES & TALES WITH TANGLED THREADS: Teaching Language with BACKYARD TRANSFORMATIONS. Video documentation of classroom experiments, Los Angeles Open School, 1990.

Tree Listening Test Trailer (2017)

10 January 2017

If trees had ears? In this preliminary study for The Social Lives of Urban Trees we brought an accelerometer, a hydrophone, an ultrasonic microphone, and various special purpose transducers to audition a London planetree (Platanus x acerifolia) planted at a city streetcorner.

Backyard Transformations Trailer (1991)

18 January 1991

This exploration in combinatorial media and the morphology of narrative integrates motion picture, sound, and text elements in a story construction environment for children.

Grace Going Awkwardly Trailer (1974)

04 April 1974

Portable cinema in Rome's Campo de' Fiori neighborhood parses the gestures and flows of everyday space as people go about routines of installing, displacing, transforming, and carting away the objects that define such adaptive architectural places as street markets and parking lots.

Finger Film Trailer (1976)

02 January 1976

A taxonomy of manipulation, gesture, and touch for a computer research project with touch-sensitive displays, Super 8 film, MIT Architecture Machine Group.

Recess: Incidents in the Playground Trailer (1987)

08 January 1987

Recorded daily at Los Angeles Open School from September 1986 to June 1987, this diary of the playground distills an architectural observation that explored patterns of ritual, improvisation, and territorial dynamics in children's games.

Allons-Y Alonzo: Souvenirs of a Landscape Trailer (2001)

02 January 2001

In 1998 a 260-kilometer stretch of the Loire River—and its adjoining parklands, vineyards, chateaux, churches, abbeys and prehistoric sites—from Sully-sur-Loire to Chalonnes, was nominated by the government of France as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Emptiness Can Hold Things Trailer (2017)

24 January 2017

Places—like stories, but different—are structures of communication and collective memory. A place is an organization, and memory is often an articulation of space.

Fly Line Trailer (2013)

11 January 2013

Afternoon fishers rehearse the fine art of allurement without disturbing any fish. Anglers Lodge and Casting Pools at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, 23 March 2013.

Allegro Trailer (2008)

11 January 2008

In this prequel to PALLADIO POTATOES PIANO PIANO, 2 timelapse sequences condense 3 years of the villa's construction to 10 minutes 33 seconds.

Be There Here Trailer (1991)

01 January 1991

Being where your body isn't. This primer on Virtual Reality, produced for Telepresence Research, contemplated fresh visions and demonstrated emerging technologies for virtual environments and remote presence.

Kalopashka Trailer (1975)

09 January 1975

Good Easter. Super 8 film. Observance of Holy Week in the island of Patmos. The monastery that rises above the village, founded in 1088, is consecrated to Saint John the Apostle, who wrote the Book of Revelation while living in exile on this Aegean island.

Fuera de Marco (Out of Frame) Trailer (2004)

07 January 2004

Chronicle of an installation Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, where Uruguayan artist Marco Maggi employed 400 reams of white copy paper to carpet a concrete floor.

Antecedence: Terence McKenna Talks Virtual Reality Trailer (1991)