Description: Ann Deborah Levy’s two films Waterscape: Illusions and Watercolors, explore swans, filmmaking, myth, reality, and human observation.
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Director’s Statement:
My films and videos, usually shot outdoors, explore varying levels of experience. They may examine how visual perception of the landscape is mediated as it is reflected on a pond, “painted” by raindrops hitting a car window, or by where the camera focuses; or they may show how reality is filtered and changed in the human mind as it is observed, recorded, imagined, or recalled by individuals or through collective historical memory. The soundtracks that accompany the images often reveal what is not seen: th
I shot my earliest films with a Bolex and edited on a flatbed. Shooting on film with the Bolex, I was unable to record sync sound. Flatbed editing permitted only simple effects. This experience along with my previous training as a painter with a special interest in color, have influenced how I now make digital videos.