Jodie Mack: MATTER MATTERS or ANIMATE or DIE

Join the Yale School of Art course “Principles of Animation,” for an afternoon with artist Jodie Mack and a screening of 16mm films with plants and natural materials that consider animation as a mechanism for processing grief and accepting death. Hosted by Art 185 Principles of Animation, Yale School of Art in 320 York Street, Humanities Quadrangle, HQ L01, Alice Cinema.

Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2013, 3m38s, 16mm, color, sound)
Hoarders Without Borders (2018, 4m45s, 16mm, color, silent)
Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (2021, 6m, 16mm, color, silent)
Wasteland No. 2: Hardy, Hearty (2019, 6m40s, 16mm, color, silent)
Wasteland No. 1: Ardent, Verdant (2017, 4m30s, 16mm, color, silent)
M*U*S*H* (2022, 8m, 16mm, color, silent)

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.

Mack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.

Open to the Yale community