Jo Ann Kaplan
Body of Work
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm, video
Year 1986-2010
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Jo Ann Kaplan
Running time 119 min
Films
INVOCATION (MAYA DEREN) (1986) 53'
HISTOIRE DE I (1997) 23'
ANATOMIE DE LA MÉLANCOLIE (2000) 13'
ONETWOTHREE (2010) 12'
REGARDER LA PEINTURE SÉCHER (2010) 18'
Description
Jo Ann Kaplan is an award-winning and acclaimed filmmaker whose works have been presented for forty years in galleries, cinemas, festivals, and on television around the world. Her work is distinguished by an exceptional diversity of forms, including animation, dance film, fiction, experimental cinema, as well as documentary and arts programming. The sources of inspiration for her work are equally varied: the imagination of Georges Bataille, Robert Burton's classic text on melancholy, and the foundational films of Maya Deren.
She has collaborated on film projects with writer Angela Carter, dancer Dana Caspersen of the Bill Forsythe Company, as well as with musicians such as Alexander Balanescu, Keith Tippett, Kate and Mike Westbrook, Annabelle Pangborn, Thom Willems, and Graham Hadfield. Jo Ann Kaplan's entire body of work is characterized by a sensual approach to filmmaking and an exploration of the human and feminine form as the embodiment of meaning and emotion.
The Body of Work collection presents a selection of Jo Ann Kaplan's most personal films, notably including her landmark biography of the charismatic filmmaker Maya Deren, published for the first time on DVD, as well as two recently completed films, one in the form of a dance, the other as a painting in the making. This collection is accompanied by a new essay commissioned from Lucy Reynolds.