A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Milwaukee, WI
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.
Director:
1982 Degrees of Limitation
1982 Hotel Cartograph
1985 Probability
1986 Low Resolution TV
1987 Chromesthetic Response
1987 Crazy
1988 Corners
1988 Satrapy
1988 The sound of his face
1988 W
1990 Protective Coloration
1991 Cat Dance
1993 Acceleration
1993 Unauthorized Access
1994 I’ll Walk with God
1997 Back in the Saddle Again
1998 NOEMA
1999 in.side.out
2001 Angel Beach
2001 More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
2003 To Love or To Die
2004 Shape Shift
2005 Driven
2006 All About the Illusion
2008 Right
2008 Speechless
2010 Compressive/Percussive
2010 Longhorn Tremolo
2012 BLOOM
2012 One Way to Find Out
2012 Tenpin Arpeggio
2012 Traces
2013 The Realist
2015 Is it true what they say
2015 Traces/Legacy
2022 Damnation
2022 Music in the Air
2022 Night Out of Song
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2
2024 The Last Forever
???? Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter One
Director of Photography:
1982 Degrees of Limitation
1982 Hotel Cartograph
1985 Probability
1986 Low Resolution TV
1987 Chromesthetic Response
1987 Crazy
1988 Corners
1988 Satrapy
1988 The sound of his face
1988 W
1990 Protective Coloration
1991 Cat Dance
1993 Acceleration
1993 Unauthorized Access
1994 I’ll Walk with God
1997 Back in the Saddle Again
1998 NOEMA
1999 in.side.out
2001 Angel Beach
2001 More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
2003 To Love or To Die
2004 Shape Shift
2005 Driven
2006 All About the Illusion
2008 Right
2008 Speechless
2010 Compressive/Percussive
2010 Longhorn Tremolo
2012 BLOOM
2012 One Way to Find Out
2012 Tenpin Arpeggio
2012 Traces
2013 The Realist
2015 Is it true what they say
2015 Traces/Legacy
2022 Damnation
2022 Music in the Air
2022 Night Out of Song
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2
2024 The Last Forever
???? Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter One
Editor:
1982 Degrees of Limitation
1982 Hotel Cartograph
1985 Probability
1986 Low Resolution TV
1987 Chromesthetic Response
1987 Crazy
1988 Corners
1988 Satrapy
1988 The sound of his face
1988 W
1990 Protective Coloration
1991 Cat Dance
1993 Acceleration
1993 Unauthorized Access
1994 I’ll Walk with God
1997 Back in the Saddle Again
1998 NOEMA
1999 in.side.out
2001 Angel Beach
2001 More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
2003 To Love or To Die
2004 Shape Shift
2005 Driven
2006 All About the Illusion
2008 Right
2008 Speechless
2010 Compressive/Percussive
2010 Longhorn Tremolo
2012 BLOOM
2012 One Way to Find Out
2012 Tenpin Arpeggio
2012 Traces
2013 The Realist
2015 Is it true what they say
2015 Traces/Legacy
2022 Damnation
2022 Music in the Air
2022 Night Out of Song
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2
2024 The Last Forever
???? Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter One
Music:
1982 Degrees of Limitation
1982 Hotel Cartograph
1985 Probability
1986 Low Resolution TV
1987 Chromesthetic Response
1987 Crazy
1988 Corners
1988 Satrapy
1988 The sound of his face
1988 W
1990 Protective Coloration
1991 Cat Dance
1993 Acceleration
1993 Unauthorized Access
1994 I’ll Walk with God
1997 Back in the Saddle Again
1998 NOEMA
1999 in.side.out
2001 Angel Beach
2001 More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
2003 To Love or To Die
2004 Shape Shift
2005 Driven
2006 All About the Illusion
2008 Right
2008 Speechless
2010 Compressive/Percussive
2010 Longhorn Tremolo
2012 BLOOM
2012 One Way to Find Out
2012 Tenpin Arpeggio
2012 Traces
2013 The Realist
2015 Is it true what they say
2015 Traces/Legacy
2022 Damnation
2022 Music in the Air
2022 Night Out of Song
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2
2024 The Last Forever
???? Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter One
Sound Recordist:
1982 Degrees of Limitation
1982 Hotel Cartograph
1985 Probability
1986 Low Resolution TV
1987 Chromesthetic Response
1987 Crazy
1988 Corners
1988 Satrapy
1988 The sound of his face
1988 W
1990 Protective Coloration
1991 Cat Dance
1993 Acceleration
1993 Unauthorized Access
1994 I’ll Walk with God
1997 Back in the Saddle Again
1998 NOEMA
1999 in.side.out
2001 Angel Beach
2001 More Than Meets the Eye: Remaking Jane Fonda
2003 To Love or To Die
2004 Shape Shift
2005 Driven
2006 All About the Illusion
2008 Right
2008 Speechless
2010 Compressive/Percussive
2010 Longhorn Tremolo
2012 BLOOM
2012 One Way to Find Out
2012 Tenpin Arpeggio
2012 Traces
2013 The Realist
2015 Is it true what they say
2015 Traces/Legacy
2022 Damnation
2022 Music in the Air
2022 Night Out of Song
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes
2022 Underlying Persistent Volumes, Part 2
2024 The Last Forever
???? Love and the Epiphanists: Chapter One
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