RPM Fest Presents Mountains Meet the Sea: Kathy Rugh
Run Time: 90 min.
RPM Festival and the Brattle Theatre Co-Present Kathy Rugh
Post-screening discussion with Kathy Rugh and Brittany Gravely
RPM Festival, in collaboration with Brattle Theatre, is excited to welcome Kathy Rugh, an accomplished 16mm experimental filmmaker, back to Boston for a special screening of her recent works on February 23 at 4:00 PM. This event will offer a rare opportunity to experience Rugh’s ten exquisite 16mm films, which explore double exposure, pinhole lenses, and hand-processing techniques. The program will also include one of her early works created during her MFA studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The screening will highlight Rugh’s experimental films that examine environmental consciousness, showcasing her creative process and the evolution of her filmmaking career.
Now based in Brooklyn, Kathy Rugh has garnered international recognition for her deeply inventive and visually striking films. Rugh’s films have received funding from the New York State Council on the Arts’ Electronic Media & Film Finishing Fund, and have been celebrated at festivals worldwide, including the Antimatter Film Festival in Victoria, BC, and the Images Festival in Toronto.and other prestigious festivals such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and EXiS Experimental Film Festival in Seoul.
Publicist and designer at the Harvard Film Archive since 2010, Brittany Gravely is also an experimental 16mm filmmaker and visual artist. Currently, she creates expanded and non-expanded cinema projects in Magical Approach with artist Ken Linehan. Recently, their films screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, Artifact, Fracto, Crossroads, Chicago Underground and Antimatter, among others. She also curates short film programs and is a founding member of the artist-run film lab AgX.
Winter’s First Moons
16mm, 3 min, Color, Sound, 2018
Isabell
16mm, 7 min, B/W, Sound, 2007
Don’t Look Directly into the Sun
16mm, 9 min, B/W toned, Sound, 2010
Urban Green
16mm, 8 min, Color, Sound, 2011
Light Streaming
16mm, 7 min, Color, Sound, 2012
East, West, and East Again
16mm, 9 ½ min, Color, Sound, 2016
Light’s Return
16mm, 3 min, Color, Sound, 2021
Floods Recede to Luxury
16mm, 4 min, Color, Sound, 2023
The City is a Heat Island & our Forests are on Fire
16mm to Digital, 4:41, Color, Sound, 2019
Mountains Meet the Sea
16mm to digital, 4 min, Color, Sound, 2020
Summer’s Last Moons
16mm to digital, 3 min, Color, Sound, 2018
Total: 67 mins
Please visit revolutionsperminutefest.org for more information.
Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.
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