Eve Heller is a young, very poetic voice in the harmony choir of the American avant-garde. She studied film making, philosophy, German literature and political science. Her films have been screened in several museums and at festivals. Eve Heller uses the intricate and particular beauty of black and white 16mm film to carve a space for the viewer away from the frantic pace of the traditional moving image. Sensitive, ruminative, and often disarmingly simple in appearance, these films develop an otherworldly atmosphere where the viewer is invited to grasp the profound in the everyday. She’s an unknown poet of the new underground. I love deeply her little, fragile and beautiful works!
Last Lost (1996, 16mm, B/W, Sound, 13 min.)
A slightly hypnotic and open-ended parable about coming of age in a shifty world of slipping terms. Gleaned from optically printed fragments of a home market movie about a chimpanzee’s high adventures at Coney Island.
Astor Place (1997, 16mm, B/W, Silent, 10 min.)
Passers-by speak silent volumes as they move by the mirrored surface of a diner window where a camera running at 48 frames per second records the unscripted choreography of the street, its dance of gazes and riddle of identities. This film is based on the work of the Lumière Brothers, with an eye to permeating the authority of the static camera and establishing a question as to who is watching whom.
Her Glacial Speed (2001, 16mm, B/W, Silent, 5 min.)
The world as seen in a teardrop of milk. I set out to make a film about how unwitting constellations of meaning rise to a surface of understanding at a pace outside of worldly time. This premise became a self-fulfilling prophecy. An unexpected interior began to unfold, made palpable by a trauma that remains abstract. First “words” after an unspeakable loss. Her Glacial Speed, composed from shots from the 1960s and the early 1970s, redefined by the optical printer, allows the viewer to float.
Behind this Soft Eclipse (2004, 16mm, B/W, Silent, 11 min.)
Ripples of optically printed water reoccur in this elegiac film. A crossing of paths behind the seen, a labor of love in the wake of one who was just here. I was imagining a collaboration of parallel worlds or a kind of doubled consciousness, a sense of the corporeal and the riddle of absence. The film is structured along a line of contrasting elements in the form of negative and positive imagery, day and night shots, under and above water elements, presence and disappearance. Light and motion, jarring and gentle, weave the hand processed elements. ‘Eclipse’ is an elegy for Marion McMahon who co-founded the Film Farm (Independent Imaging Retreat) in Southern Ontario, where it was produced. Textured as if three-dimensional, Behind This Soft Eclipse beseeches you to enter… but it is “only” a movie.
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