Scott Stark Trailers
More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda Trailer
Scott Stark has produced more than 75 films and videos since 1980. Additionally, he has created a number of gallery and non-gallery installations using film and video, and elaborate photographic collages using large grids of images. Born and educated in the midwest, he has always been interested in aggressively pushing his work beyond the threshold of traditional viewing expectations, challenging the audience to question its relationship to the cinematic process; yet he also tries to build into the work elements of humor and incongruity that allow the viewer an entryway into the work while maintaining a critical distance. Both a passionate purist and a cynical skeptic, he likes to emphasize the physicality of film while cross-referencing it to the world outside the theater, attempting to lay bare the paradoxes of modern culture and the magical nature of the perceptual experience.
Most Popular Scott Stark Trailers
Total trailers found: 43
08 August 1986
A Super-8 film by Scott Stark
29 March 2024
“Using found family photographs (mostly 35mm slides), I cracked open the family archive to generate imaginative and at times illogical narratives.
15 August 2012
Industrial penetrations into the arid Texas landscape yield a strange and exotic flowering. Using images from the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, based on oil drilling footage from the first half of the 20th century.
21 May 2022
Abstractions are gently lifted from the urban palette and are posited against shapes both organic and inorganic, in an ebb and flow of urban movement.
01 January 2003
Made with two parallel cameras, To Love or To Die is a brief binocular odyssey through a suburban wonderland of desire and fulfillment.
01 January 2008
A playful study of one of the U.S.A.'s most ubiquitous symbols, and an attempt to re-invent it as a thing of problematic beauty.
08 August 1988
A film by Scott Stark
16 May 1990
This film is a succession of visual and aural "notes" generated by the patterns in animals' hides, which are arranged and re-edited into a complex musical architecture, developing intricate rhythms not unlike the complex syncopations found in traditional African music.
21 June 2012
Hand-printed sections from 35mm movie trailers create a chaotic and densely layered retelling of Hollywood form.
01 January 1987
A collage of human-created worldly surfaces - sidewalks, streets, storefronts - that evoke subtle and mysterious noises.
03 March 1993
An urban sabotage video in the highly structured and territorial world of the financial services industry.
01 January 1999
in.side.out is a very personal piece. On the surface it's about the changes taking place, over a two-year period, in an empty lot and a decrepit old building next to my house.
01 January 2010
Compressive/Percussive is a double-projector performance using two digital video projectors. The imagery is taken from a double-decker interstate freeway a few blocks from my current residence in Austin, Texas.
05 November 2022
In a live double-16mm projector performance, Scott Stark feeds gorgeous Kodachrome found footage—from a 1950s promo doc about a fabled teen music camp near Stockton CA—into his propeller-driven projection system to generate a transformative visual spectacle.
01 January 2004
In Shape Shift, Stark uses two cameras positioned opposite each other to reveal, as Stark writes, “a body transposed upon itself.
01 January 2010
Excited football fans move through a visually kinetic space in slow motion toward their goal.
14 July 1994
Using emergency information cards surreptitiously lifted from the backs of airline seats, I'll Walk with God pictorially charts an airline flight attendant's stoic transcendence through and beyond worldly adversity.
01 January 1985
"Probability" (1985) presents a series of handmade signs featuring wild headlines taken from the tabloid "Weekly World News".
01 January 2005
Driven attempts to blur the lines between video gaming and urban reality, finding in both a seductive resonance.
08 August 1988
A film for three Super-8 projectors by Scott Stark
02 October 2015
“Discarded Christmas trees, colorfully arranged flea-market finds, a museum of animal kills, microscopic views of kitchenware, and other overlooked cultural artifacts are interwoven with flickering journeys through mysterious, shadowy realms.
01 January 2006
All About The Illusion (2006) uses two synchronized cameras, one pointing forward and the other behind, to explore an abandoned train repair yard: a site of industrial neglect, decay, toxicity and new growth.
07 July 1987
A film on Super-8 by Scott Stark
01 January 2012
Worldly surfaces, shifting shadows and overlooked patterns: a series of short 35mm films generated from digital still images and printed onto movie film.
15 April 1982
The movements across the 2-dimensional space, and in and out of elevators through 3-dimensional space, suggest a conceptual map of the visible environment, which is perhaps drawn by the camera itself.
06 October 2008
Medical 3D photographs of human vulvae are interwoven with surfaces and textures in natural and human-made environments.
12 November 2022
A succession of guilty souls is viewed through a mysterious portal as they are dispatched to eternal damnation.
08 September 2013
Scott Stark leads us through a dizzying array of consumerist goods in his stereoscopic mannequin melodrama The Realist.
01 January 2001
More Than Meets The Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda is a remake of one of Jane Fonda's exercise videos, with Scott Stark as the performer, set in a variety of locations, both public and private.
01 March 2015
Archival films from itinerant filmmakers who traveled the south in the 1930s through the 1950s are reworked, the footage presented as ghostly apparitions in modern urban Texas settings.
01 January 1998
NOEMA is philosopher Husserl's term for "the meaning of an object that is formed in the domain of consciousness.
18 April 2025
Stereo photos of 1950s-era cocktail parties are transformed into an intense visual playland.
01 January 1997
A found footage film that innocently plays with many of the elements I explore in my own work. A family's playful interaction with a 16mm sound movie camera, singing along as a group with Gene Autrey's title song in front of the camera, combines western fantasy, American kitsch, gender posturing, deterioration of the film's surface, the wonderment of the cinematic process, and the use of controlled accidents to shape the form of the film.
01 January 1982
A silent film made completely in about 15 minutes on a partly cloudy day in San Francisco in 1982. With the 16mm Bolex camera mounted on a tripod, I wound the motor a single crank and ran as far as I could before the camera stopped (about 1 second).
10 June 2012
2012, digital video, color/sound, Cinemascope, 10 mins.
Movements of bowlers in an American bowling alley form an arpeggio of sound and image against backgrounds of abstraction and calls for civic engagement.
03 June 2007
"The visual was originally captured through two Super 8 cameras, which were attached on the pedals of a bicycle, through my ride from Marin County to San Francisco.
04 June 2022
An instructional video for a software development platform is illustrated with found family photos and musical accompaniment.
01 January 2022
An instructional video for a software development platform is illustrated with found family photos and musical accompaniment.
17 September 1988
A "filmed biography" of Kirk Douglas -- literally. Pages of a book -- the lines of text, and the tiny dots comprising the half-tone photographs -- create odd musical notes, which are edited into a pounding rhythm.
02 March 1991
Two cats become visual elements as they are playfully dragged through fields of pattern and color, followed by a manic section of breathless vocalizing by the filmmaker.
14 July 1988
Rephotographed pornographic playing cards rhythmically intrude upon a piercing 5-beat score of different-sized black parallel lines, creating an almost indiscernible complexity, until the lined background ruptures and the sounds and visuals become scattered and disordered.
03 March 1993
A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains.
01 October 2001
Collection of 3d stills of people on the beach reprocessed for cinema
