This Friday, Nov. 17, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles presents Maureen Selwood: Animating the Interior, a screening of films by School of Film/Video faculty emeritus Maureen Selwood.
The program takes place as part of the museum’s Available Space series, an ongoing monthly showcase of “experimental and independent film and media.” Taking place in the museum’s Ted Mann Theater, Animating the Interior offers attendees a look at Selwood’s pioneering oeuvre. Selwood will be in attendance at the screening.
More about Selwood’s work from the Academy Museum:
Often focusing on stories, memories, and dreams that reframe and foreground women’s subjectivity and experience, Selwood’s animated films employ multiple techniques and textures to showcase her highly lyrical and unmistakably personal approach to line, color, and movement. Surrealist moments of surprise and humor combine with themes of loss, grief, resistance, and empowerment, resulting in a memorable cinematic sensibility that is deeply empathetic as it externalizes complex emotions and consciousness with great awareness and beauty.
Selwood’s work has been housed in the Academy Film Archive since 2016. See the program, featuring select restorations in 16mm and 35mm film, below.
“As You Desire Me”
2009. 10 min. USA. Color. Digital.
“Flying Circus: An Imagined Memoir “
1995. 11 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
“Hail Mary”
1998. 3 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
“A Modern Convenience”
2012. 6 min. USA. Color. Digital.
“Drawing Lessons”
2005. 6 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.
“Blue Poodle Chair”
2022. 2 min. USA. Color. English. Digital.
“Pearls”
1990. 1 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
“This is Just to Say”
1987. 4 min. USA. Color. English. 16mm. New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.
“The Rug”
1985. 10 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
“Odalisque”
1980. 12 min. USA. Color. English. 35mm. Restored print from the Academy Film Archive.
