Diane Kitchen (Milwaukee, WI)
Diane Kitchen’s experimental documentaries, Before We Knew Nothing and Roots, Thorns, were made with the Ashaninka people in Peru’s Amazon Basin and have screened at diverse venues including the Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Modern Art, The Library of Congress, and internationally in France, Chile, Denmark, Bolivia, Hungary. Exhibition of recent films Wot the Ancient Sod and Quick’s Thicket include Montreal’s First Peoples’ Festival, the Whitney Biennial, London Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. She has received grants from the Smithsonian Institution, Jerome Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts/Film in the Cities, and the Wisconsin Arts Board.
STILL: DIANE KITCHEN FILMING IN PERU
Scott Stark (Austin, TX)
Scott Stark has made over 80 films and videos since the early 1980s, and has created numerous moving image installations, live performances and photo-collages. He received an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and served on the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Cinematheque from 1984-1991. His work has shown nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the Film Festival Rotterdam, the Tokyo Image Forum, and many others. His 16mm film Angel Beach was invited into the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and in 2007 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His 2013 film The Realist showed at numerous worldwide film festivals and was on several year-end “best” lists. His work has garnered numerous awards. He lives in Austin, Texas. He is the webmaster for Flicker (www.hi-beam.net), the web resource for experimental film and video.
artist website: http://www.scottstark.com/
STILL: SCOTT STARK
David Witzling (Milwaukee, WI)
David Witzling is a 1979 vintage Aquarius. He earned a BA in 2001 from UW-Madison after studying literature and philosophy. Since 2001 he has lived in Milwaukee, worked as a graphic designer, and shown his video work at a variety of alternative venues. His interests include the history of science, Modernist art, and the philosophy of religion. In 2009, he completed an MFA in film at UW-Milwaukee, and subsequently taught photography at Carroll University. He currently lectures in the Department of Film at UW-Milwaukee and is serving as the Program Coordinator for the Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology Program in the Peck School of the Arts. His recent video “Echoes of Information” was selected for Volume 31 of the Journal of Short Film.
artist website: http://drw.frametheweb.com/
STILL: DAVID WITZLING
