Mike Stoltz is a Los Angeles-based moving image artist who makes work that examines constructed landscapes and how human beings move through and exist within these settings.
Throughout the varied works is a primary interest in the spatial qualities of the moving image. The filmic experience is used to interrogate and reimagine how spaces affect the lives of humans in a way that incorporates the somatic, the kinetic, and the visceral.
The films combine observational nonfiction imagery with process-heavy techniques that emphasize the material qualities of analog film image capture and projection. The sound incorporates textural artifacts such as feedback, tape hiss, and electrical hum.
The resulting pieces are both environmental and graphic in their qualities. Each piece works the viewer towards a trance state through its own design and logic, combining the meditative and the phantasmagoric. At the core of these works are the politics of how the movement of bodies are regulated through space, and the subtle line between banal and hostile architecture.
Stoltz's 16mm films and videos have screened internationally at venues such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, The Hammer Museum, Media City Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Courtisane, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Light Field, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT,and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
He has programmed film screenings for Magic Lantern Cinema, The Echo Park Film Center, VISIONS, The Arroyo Seco Cine Club, and Now Instant Image Hall.
Please e-mail for preview links to full films.
Distributed by
Canyon Cinema (US)
Light Cone (Europe)
Throughout the varied works is a primary interest in the spatial qualities of the moving image. The filmic experience is used to interrogate and reimagine how spaces affect the lives of humans in a way that incorporates the somatic, the kinetic, and the visceral.
The films combine observational nonfiction imagery with process-heavy techniques that emphasize the material qualities of analog film image capture and projection. The sound incorporates textural artifacts such as feedback, tape hiss, and electrical hum.
The resulting pieces are both environmental and graphic in their qualities. Each piece works the viewer towards a trance state through its own design and logic, combining the meditative and the phantasmagoric. At the core of these works are the politics of how the movement of bodies are regulated through space, and the subtle line between banal and hostile architecture.
Stoltz's 16mm films and videos have screened internationally at venues such as Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, The Hammer Museum, Media City Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Courtisane, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival (BAFICI), Light Field, International Film Festival Rotterdam, REDCAT,and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
He has programmed film screenings for Magic Lantern Cinema, The Echo Park Film Center, VISIONS, The Arroyo Seco Cine Club, and Now Instant Image Hall.
Please e-mail for preview links to full films.
Distributed by
Canyon Cinema (US)
Light Cone (Europe)