Paul Clipson
Directing
Paul Clipson was a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborated with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. He recently premiered Hypsosis Display, a feature-length sound/16mm film collaboration with Grouper in the United Kingdom. [bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
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movieAt Hand
2018
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movieTenderness
2017
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movieTotal Fiction
2017
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movieSpectral Ascension
2017
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movieCruel Optimism
2017
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movieHeadache
2017
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movieLove's Refrain
2016
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movieFeeler
2016
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movieFell on My Face
2016
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movieMayrah
2016
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movieLighthouse
2015
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movieCome On
2015
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movieTransparent Things
2014
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movieMade of Air
2014
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movieHypnosis Display
2014
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movieLove After Love
2014
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moviePulsars e Quasars
2014
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movieLa Paloma
2014
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movieLight Year
2014
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movieTrajections
2014
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movieVoid Redux
2013
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movieDifficult Loves
2013
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movieBright Mirror
2013
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movieMake Visible the Ghost
2013
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movieOther States
2013
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movieE.S.P. TV #20
2012
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movieLandscape Dissolves
2012
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movieThe Crystal Text
2012
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movieSpeaking Corpse
2012
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movieAnother Void
2012
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movieAbsteigend
2012
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movieOrigin
2012
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movieDark Passage
2011
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Araneae
2011
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Odonata
2011
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movieEphemeris
2011
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movieLight from the Mesa
2010
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movieRuminant
2010
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movieUnion
2010
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movieLightmaze
2010
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movieSphinx on the Seine
2009
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movieChorus
2009
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movieWithin Mirrors
2008
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movieThe Phantom Harp
2008
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movieMoth & Moon
2008
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moviePassageways
2007
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movieCorridors
2007
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movieEcho Park
2007
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movieSun Place
2007
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movieTuolumne
2007
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movieBend Sinister
2007
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movieEarthlight
2006
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movieConstellations
2006
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movieOver Water
2006
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movieTwo Suns
2005
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movieBig Black Square
2005
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moviePut It on the Ground
2004
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movieTransparent Things
2014
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movieLove After Love
2014
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moviePut It on the Ground
2004
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movieThe Crystal Text
2012
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movieSphinx on the Seine
2009
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