Karen Yasinsky

A Woman in Trouble Is a Temporary Thing

From an animated spider's web to a bouncing ball in space, and from a Tarkovski image of a Russian horse to a close-up of Victoria Legrand, frontwoman of an American dream-pop band, Yasinsky excels in provoking simple, yet mysterious connections between live action and animation, forging a special realm between past and present.

Dreaming In The Dark

For Dreaming the Dark: hands that see, eyes that touch, Ana Vaz invited artists and filmmakers whose work trust cinema’s capacity to transform relationships between the body and the camera to propose works that will engage with both perception and embodiment. Could cinema be an art of embodiment? By what rituals and actions could vision become tactile?

Vera

A character created over the time of animating the cobweb and thinking about Bix Beiderbecke's Mississippi Mud. Additional music by Andrew Bernstein with Gillian Waldo.

The Perpetual Motion of My Love for You

A collage film slipping between narrative starts of images and sounds

The Man from Hong Kong

An internalized collage film which started with the found vacation film someone gave to me many years ago. The script I recorded for the film was resistant but the photographs of Man Ray, Paul Outerbridge and the soundtracks from Bruce Lee films attached themselves. Everyone wants to touch someone. (KY)

Audition

The starting point for Audition was the movement of the stripper across the stage in the red light. I rotoscoped the scene and each frame is hand drawn pixels. Once I realized that the sound attached to the source scene was the impetus for the remembered image, the rest of the video revealed itself. Hand-drawn animation and digital video.

Life Is an Opinion, Fire a Fact

Radically deconstructive in its interpretation of a famous Tarkovsky-sequence, Yasinsky reverses the original order of the sequence and blends it with white noise and hand-drawn sequences. She also ties her act of appropriation in with a suicide scene from Bresson and other, more serene images and sounds.

After Hours

The film originated with thoughts on senseless violence, cultural observation and hypnotism. Many of the images are repurposed, related but unhinged from their original context

Pathetic Magic

Experimental animated film by Karen Yasinsky with music by Thank You

This Room Is White

The woman is moving, attending to things, the man watches. Fun products scroll across the screen as a break. We switch lives. The young girl now watches. Actually she has always been watching, bemused. The obvious things go unnoticed but not by her. The title THIS ROOM IS WHITE was mentioned in a conversation with a friend who used it as a new expression of speech, referring to the obvious, the fact, the reality which often gets ignored. This movie was made with hand-drawn animation, 15 drawings per second and stop-motion with the "Wacky Stickers" (which is my collection for when I was a kid in the early 70's). Several scenes were rotoscoped from films from the 70's.

Marie

Marie is based on the main character in the film Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson. Music by Brahms, sound by Snacks (Tom Boram and Dan Breen).

Enough to Drive You Mad

The starting point was a still from the film Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson. From there, pure automatism.

I Choose Darkness

This animation takes as a starting point the character of Marie in Au Hasard Balthazar by Robert Bresson.

La Nuit

The artist breathes life into handmade dolls as she recreates a scene from Vigo’s L'Atalante.

Le Matin

An animation based on the beginning of the film L'Atalante by Jean Vigo.

Boys

Boys is made with traditional stop motion puppet animation and flash animation. After rough play, two boys fall back into their beanbag chairs to be set upon by bugs. They enjoy this.

Who's Your True Love?

Three people in one emotional bubble encounter three dogs in the natural world.

Still Life with Cows

Two women together out west. One can't walk. Create a story.

No Place Like Home #2

Part 2 of No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home #1

An animated film inspired by all the strangeness and mystery surrounding Dorothy's predicament in the Wizard of Oz: what happened to her parents? Why has she no friends her own age? Why does her fantasy consist of all those middle aged farm hands?

The Lonely Life of Debby Adams

Images and sounds appear as suggestions and are revisited; clues dispersed. Debby waits in a room not really alone.

Pools of Shadow from an Older Sky

Collaboration with Huck Hodge in honor of Galileo.