Jo Ann Kaplan
Nacimiento : 1945-01-01, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Muerte : 2016-05-01
Historia
Jo Ann Kaplan was an American filmmaker, editor and artist.
Granny
Times are hard for little Sofia, as the Greek recession is taking its toll. With her Father out of work, they rely solely on Greedy Grumpy Granny's pension. Desperate times call for desperate measures; to what extremes will they go, when Granny is no more?
Director
Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan.
Director
Directed by Jo Ann Kaplan.
Editor
A clear-eyed look at the inevitability of our demise, based on Philip Larkin’s poem of the same name.
Animation
"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of a dissected human body, we witness both the act of creation and a testament to our own passing. Accompanying the simple but powerful images of the human body, we hear the words of Keats' Ode on Melancholy: "Ay, in the very temple of Delight. Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."
Director
"An Anatomy of Melancholy" is a cinematic meditation on mortality which takes the form of a special anatomy book - one in the process of being made. As hand-drawn illustrations appear slowly and painfully on the pages of the book, showing us parts of a dissected human body, we witness both the act of creation and a testament to our own passing. Accompanying the simple but powerful images of the human body, we hear the words of Keats' Ode on Melancholy: "Ay, in the very temple of Delight. Veiled Melancholy has her sovran shrine..."
Editor
A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.
Director
A woman sits alone in a bare white tiled bath, reading Georges Bataille’s ‘Story of the Eye.’ The bizarre events described in the text provoke a series of fantasies in which the room and its accoutrements become the stage and the woman the main player. As her dreams unfold in the liquid medium of the bath, she becomes the ‘eye’ of the story and her own body the object of its gaze. With a feminine hand, THE STORY OF I plucks Bataille’s central metaphor from its original context and re-invents its erotic vision from the inside out. The eye is the vagina, seen throught he blood, urine and tears, it looks at itself in a mirror.
Editor
About a personal experience of claustrophobia and how to deal with it. When you can't have another cup of coffee or another brandy because you just gotta get on the plane. And there you are. And suddenly there's a flight attendant saying - Good morning.
Director
The Holy Family Album, Angela Carter’s sacrilegious take on Christian iconography, was one of the points of inspiration for curator Marie Mulvey-Roberts for the Strange Worlds Exhibition. The programme conceives of the representation of Christ in Western art history as photos in God’s photo album, only God the Father is not in pictures because he is behind the camera, taking the photographs, “calling the shots”.
Director
A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?
Writer
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.
Director
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.
Sound Effects Editor
Dos mujeres mueren en un accidente de tráfico y la conductora que iba con ellas pierde una pierna. Los maridos de las víctimas, dos zoólogos gemelos se sienten fascinados por el proceso de descomposición de los cuerpos. Después inician un idilio con la conductora amputada y comienzan a liberar animales del zoológico en el que trabajan.
Editor
A documentary about the life and works of Margaret Tait.
Sound Editor
An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
Assistant Editor
Cuando Sam Phillips, un padre de familia normal y corriente, desaparece sin dejar rastro, sólo su hijo Tony sabe que lo hizo después de que un gran destello apareciera en el cielo. Pero cuando Sam reaparece tan súbitamente como se había ido, Tony sabe que algo ha cambiado y que ya no es un ser humano. A medida que el cuerpo de Sam se va deteriorando, por culpa de un extraterrestre oculto en su interior, su hijo se da cuenta de que debe actuar para detener al intruso y evitar que infecte a los humanos con los millones de larvas alienígenas que transporta.
Additional Dialogue
Cuando Sam Phillips, un padre de familia normal y corriente, desaparece sin dejar rastro, sólo su hijo Tony sabe que lo hizo después de que un gran destello apareciera en el cielo. Pero cuando Sam reaparece tan súbitamente como se había ido, Tony sabe que algo ha cambiado y que ya no es un ser humano. A medida que el cuerpo de Sam se va deteriorando, por culpa de un extraterrestre oculto en su interior, su hijo se da cuenta de que debe actuar para detener al intruso y evitar que infecte a los humanos con los millones de larvas alienígenas que transporta.
Director
Experimental drama.
