https://mikestoltz.org Mike Stoltz Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:01:46 +0000 https://mikestoltz.org en https://mikestoltz.org/Information Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:26:37 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Information <img width="2400" height="1800" width_o="2400" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2ea8575b095a469c5d70cf51a047826eb20e4269b2c44301ae87624d6850f677/webhs.jpg" data-mid="164270154" border="0" data-scale="100" alt="Photo by Meg Rorison" data-caption="Photo by Meg Rorison" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2ea8575b095a469c5d70cf51a047826eb20e4269b2c44301ae87624d6850f677/webhs.jpg" /> ︎︎︎mikestoltzwebsite@gmail.com ︎︎︎CV Mike Stoltz is a Los Angeles-based moving image artist who makes work that examining how human beings move through and exist within the constructed landscape. 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) https://mikestoltz.org/Pinktoned Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:01:46 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Pinktoned Pinktoned and Pinktoned (Exploded View)&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; (2025, 5 channel installation with sound, 16mm to HD, looping, dimensions variable)Originally conceived as an instalation for the Made in LA Biennial at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Hammer&nbsp;Museum, Pinktoned (Exploded View)&nbsp;is a meditative passage through the streets of Los Angeles and a rumination on how moving images function&nbsp;amidst&nbsp;paranoia&nbsp;and&nbsp;state violence. Drawing its title from an esoteric audio test tone used in the motion picture industry in the 1990s, this is&nbsp;a&nbsp;process&nbsp;and&nbsp;technique&nbsp;based&nbsp;image&nbsp;piece. The center or heart of the film is a series of found 35mm slides taken in 1976 on the west side of LA. These images document the work of wheatpasting movie poster advertisements up at various intersections. Upon&nbsp;closer&nbsp;inspection&nbsp;the&nbsp;posters&nbsp;are&nbsp;revealed&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;for Underground ("The Film the FBI didn't want you to see"), the incendiary 1976 documentary by Emile de Antonio, Mary Lampson, and Haskell Wexler that depicts the Weather Underground hiding in a Los Angeles County safehouse right after the Fall of Saigon. The posters are seen amidst advertisements for All The&nbsp;President's&nbsp;Men and Logan's Run. The color of the slides has aged and faded to a palette of pinks, magentas, and reds. This color continues out onto the walls of the gallery. These 1976 images are juxtaposed with my own contemporary footage of passersby filmed out the window of my East Hollywood studio. Photographed in close up detail, these images show gestures of figures on the street; tapping out texts on touch screens, flicking ash off the end of a cigarette, gripping a coffee cup,&nbsp;passing&nbsp;money&nbsp;for&nbsp;bus&nbsp;fare. These color images are interspersed with stark black and white animation generated with open-source video synthesis software and rephotographed onto 16mm soundtrack stock frame-by frame. Akin to early computer animation these fast moving abstract shapes suggest systems&nbsp; and movement in&nbsp;flux. The soundtrack of the film is composed of the 30 tones that made up the pinktone test audio, tape echo feedback, and the noise of 16mm optical sound silence. The soundtrack is not only heard in the space, but seen as a video channel, with a full-frame scan of the 16mm optical track that generates the sound for the space.&nbsp; The picture-lock edit of the final film is situated at the end of the gallery on a CRT monitor. This video loops in sync with the soundtrack and interweaves all of the disparate elements of the exploded view into an 11-minute piece. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05bc8df871468c5085ecb2e12095455c1c968153c8fc312bf9da866ac6525c84/HolographicWill4.jpg" data-mid="196872618" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05bc8df871468c5085ecb2e12095455c1c968153c8fc312bf9da866ac6525c84/HolographicWill4.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cac855fc37bc5b6b5137a65c9d65db45296ea5671d4d57f5990716181790ba10/HolographicWill1.jpeg" data-mid="172136128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cac855fc37bc5b6b5137a65c9d65db45296ea5671d4d57f5990716181790ba10/HolographicWill1.jpeg" /> 2023, 16mm, 5:30 “A domestic swirl filmed while the building was being sold. How much longer can we afford to stay? A kaleidoscopic portrait of destabilization during the struggle to stay in a rent-controlled apartment amidst an affordable housing crisis. Shot frame by frame, moving the camera between every image. Single frames move forward in time, creating afterimage combinations without superimpositions. A phased drum machine soundtrack emphasizes the percussive quality of the image. With gratitude to neighbors and the Los Angeles Tenants Union Northeast Local. “One of the very best films of the program, Mike Stoltz’s Holographic Will, is a wild, pulsating movement through a domestic space. Stoltz puts his whole camera in and shakes it all about, resulting in a swishing, painterly flicker, impressing the architectural forms onto the screen while we catch slight glimpses of the details of living: a sofa, a picture on the wall, a lamp. The light through the back windows of the rooms essentially ‘draws’ Holographic Will, producing bright, colorful smears which periodically coalesce into a legible cinematic space...We experience the tension between cinematic abstraction and a concrete social condition, in this case the tyranny of investment capital.” -Michael Sicinski, In Review Online SCREENINGS: 2023 Media City Film Festival 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 First Look Festival - Museum of the Moving Image 2024 Los Angeles Festival of Movies 2024 DIFFUSION Festival 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival&nbsp; 2024 Moviate Film Festival 2024 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival&nbsp; 2024 Revolutions Per Minute Festival 2024 Engauge Film Festival https://mikestoltz.org/Tomorrow-it-s-not-too-late-to-join-Version Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:59:59 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Tomorrow-it-s-not-too-late-to-join-Version Tomorrow: it’s not too late to join (Version) ︎︎︎Excerpt 2022, HD, 7:30 A cameraless video that uses digital oscillators and feedback to push out against the edges of the screen. Sound by Jeremy Kennedy and Chris Brian Taylor <img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4ebd848b0c22efc48f27cc66ac04764dcb37808db4d56fffe9c26b89b5028452/Tomorrow3.jpg" data-mid="164791854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4ebd848b0c22efc48f27cc66ac04764dcb37808db4d56fffe9c26b89b5028452/Tomorrow3.jpg" /><img width="1430" height="1080" width_o="1430" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44bf6ae90f221372d6c5978ff91d0ef6924a381ca09a406f942294a7a3b9f6f3/_2Tomorrow.png" data-mid="164295183" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44bf6ae90f221372d6c5978ff91d0ef6924a381ca09a406f942294a7a3b9f6f3/_2Tomorrow.png" /> <img width="1430" height="1068" width_o="1430" height_o="1068" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/130b3bf3633f221d04f9309c7ed2d8d28062bf55b23b619b7c49338af424a946/_1Tomorrow.png" data-mid="164295186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/130b3bf3633f221d04f9309c7ed2d8d28062bf55b23b619b7c49338af424a946/_1Tomorrow.png" /><img width="1440" height="1080" width_o="1440" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a65eaa7fd6669ec9256f787d097ef34c8ca6de79f50dbc44bb719a55c0714a5b/tomorrow4.jpg" data-mid="164791855" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a65eaa7fd6669ec9256f787d097ef34c8ca6de79f50dbc44bb719a55c0714a5b/tomorrow4.jpg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/Something-To-Touch-That-Is-Not-Corruption-Or-Ashes-or-Dust-1 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 04:26:38 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Something-To-Touch-That-Is-Not-Corruption-Or-Ashes-or-Dust-1 Something To Touch That Is Not Corruption Or Ashes or Dust︎︎︎Excerpt STROBING/FLICKER WARNING <img width="1489" height="1080" width_o="1489" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d90344f99c361420cee10e11ae881066ef678418f02bd5f216f97a871e4a9aa1/s2tstill2.jpeg" data-mid="164173151" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d90344f99c361420cee10e11ae881066ef678418f02bd5f216f97a871e4a9aa1/s2tstill2.jpeg" /> 2020, 16mm, 6:45 Fences, zooms, blastbeats and oscillators search for possibility or perforation as walls close in. Attempting to break free from patterns and spirals as bodies become contained. "Mike Stoltz’s Something to Touch That Is Not Ashes or Corruption or Dust is my favorite film that I never got to show in Light Field’s 2020 program. It starts abstractly, with black and white shapes and modulated distortions of static and sound. Palm trees whiz by. A symmetry of bars and barbed wire form a fenced-in perspective. The grid of a windowpane zooms out so fast it aches. Patterns close in, torqueing around the bend. In the final moments of the film, the screen fills—a full, flickering square, fishing between the dark and the light. Watching it in isolation, the taut claustrophobia in my chest opens up so that feeling rushes in, vast and perplexing. Something to Touch helps me stay present in this moment of opacity and sickness. I breathe to the soundtrack, I let myself wonder: how long are we to be contained? Is this how we escape? Could this be our death?"-Trisha Low, Art in America Screenings:2022 Experiments in Cinema2021 Slamdance Festival2021 European Media Arts Festival2020 Exis Festival2020 Ann Arbor Film Festival2020 Iowa City Documentary Festival2020 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival2020 Onion City Film Festival2020 Light Field Festival <img width="1486" height="1080" width_o="1486" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a1d824eae2b7f02c2088721aad87be047567f52857c2ced01e5f4f6b051511b/s2tstill1.jpeg" data-mid="164173156" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a1d824eae2b7f02c2088721aad87be047567f52857c2ced01e5f4f6b051511b/s2tstill1.jpeg" /> <img width="1524" height="1080" width_o="1524" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf90b1a10190da41545bf6afb3c0e2f148d1f6eb442462e6f140f98f9131e6b3/s2tstill3.jpeg" data-mid="164173157" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf90b1a10190da41545bf6afb3c0e2f148d1f6eb442462e6f140f98f9131e6b3/s2tstill3.jpeg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/Spotlight-On-A-Brick-Wall-1 Thu, 12 Jan 2023 05:11:37 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Spotlight-On-A-Brick-Wall-1 Spotlight On A Brick Wall ︎︎︎Excerpt <img width="1440" height="1079" width_o="1440" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2c5fc1ed7bdeb98f780458180dffb7b16c2dd5fd1a45f204696cf96ffbea78e9/SpotlightStill2.jpg" data-mid="164437259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2c5fc1ed7bdeb98f780458180dffb7b16c2dd5fd1a45f204696cf96ffbea78e9/SpotlightStill2.jpg" /> Collaboration with Alee Peoples2016, 16mm, 8:00 "A performance film that navigates expectations of both the audience and the makers. A series of false starts. Dub treatment on the laugh track." Featuring: Josh Fadem, Tuni Chatterji, Penelope Uribe-Abee, Jennifer Saparzadeh, Lluvia Higuera, Tim Leanse, Ben Driggs, Alex Narinskiy, Deborah Stratman, Alex Bradley Cohen, AJ McClenon, Asha Sheshadri, Regina Rodriguez, Tony Balko, Jesse Malmed, Alee Peoples, Mike Stoltz SCREENINGS:2016 ACRE Projects (Chicago)2016 New York Film Festival - Projections2016 Light Field Festival2016 Character Projects (Los Angeles) 2016 Echo Park Film Center2017 Sign Gallery (Groningen, NL) 2017 $100 Film Festival2017 Big Ears Festival2017 Athens International Film and Video Festival2017 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival2017 Experiments in Cinema2017 European Media Arts Festival 2017 Iowa City Documentary Festival <img width="1440" height="1079" width_o="1440" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05711e50ead7dc1c83af28c9e8f79dc902a7154524a595375f02e03e9b468812/SpotlightStill3.jpg" data-mid="164437260" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05711e50ead7dc1c83af28c9e8f79dc902a7154524a595375f02e03e9b468812/SpotlightStill3.jpg" /> <img width="1440" height="1079" width_o="1440" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c3557a6169357e8118f5785076d64feb10b6ba62bc54095e334429de95772c66/SpotlightStill1.jpg" data-mid="164437258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c3557a6169357e8118f5785076d64feb10b6ba62bc54095e334429de95772c66/SpotlightStill1.jpg" /> <img width="1438" height="1079" width_o="1438" height_o="1079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c185ddb23a19b46d1188bdaaf294e6534ff66e9835551ac7b6e98e70265472f8/SpotlightStill4.jpg" data-mid="164437261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c185ddb23a19b46d1188bdaaf294e6534ff66e9835551ac7b6e98e70265472f8/SpotlightStill4.jpg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/Lost-Present-Tense-1 Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:39:05 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Lost-Present-Tense-1 Lost, Present Tense (2017, 16mm to HD, looping) Somewhere between a triptych and rebus, this piece displays images of a field on fire, a body enveloped in a cloud of smoke, and walls expanding and collapsing. All are found film images that have been rephotographed and manipulated on an optical printer and contact printer. The three independently looping channels provide the viewer an imagined landscape of the present moment to move through. This piece made possible with support from The Echo Park Film Center and the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts <img width="1918" height="520" width_o="1918" height_o="520" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7cd37791d259f98ac8f0d6658b8e242ceb4a6faf646aae371dc3678d641f3e4a/LPT_Web.jpg" data-mid="164546790" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7cd37791d259f98ac8f0d6658b8e242ceb4a6faf646aae371dc3678d641f3e4a/LPT_Web.jpg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/Half-Human-Half-Vapor-1 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:05:26 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Half-Human-Half-Vapor-1 Half Human, Half Vapor ︎︎︎Excerpt <img width="2400" height="1756" width_o="2400" height_o="1756" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bafd6839cb2cbc3af58c617931da4d456238455a918701574c399cb1f927d795/HHHV1.jpg" data-mid="164308725" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bafd6839cb2cbc3af58c617931da4d456238455a918701574c399cb1f927d795/HHHV1.jpg" /> 2015, 16mm, 12:00 A mystic's sculpture garden amidst hurricane damage and property foreclosure. "Traces of a human colony from a near past are unearthed through its relics; speculations about parallel possibilities emerge as debris turns into vapor." - 2016 Images Festival This project began out of a fascination with a giant sculpture of a dragon attached to a Central Florida mansion. The property had recently been left to rot, held in lien by a bank. Hurricanes washed away the sculpture.I learned about the artist who created this landmark, Lewis Vandercar (1913-1988), who began as a painter. His practice grew along with his notoriety for spell-casting and telepathy.Inspired by Vandercar’s interest in parallel possibility, I combined these images with text from local newspaper articles in a haunted-house film that both engages with and looks beyond the material world. SCREENINGS:2015 New York Film Festival - Projections (premiere)2015 Half Human, Half Vapor solo show at Echo Park Film Center2016 International Film Festival Rotterdam2016 Onion City Film Festival2016 Crossroads Festival2016 Athens International Film and Video Festival2016 Images Festival2016 European Media Arts Festival Osnabruck2016 Exis Festival2016 Lima Independiente Festival Internacional de Cine <img width="2400" height="1732" width_o="2400" height_o="1732" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/117e636736e7fff7cd8547d99e3d205bd8344c1545764ddc84b19aa62a54cc73/HHHV2.jpg" data-mid="164308726" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/117e636736e7fff7cd8547d99e3d205bd8344c1545764ddc84b19aa62a54cc73/HHHV2.jpg" /> <img width="2400" height="1752" width_o="2400" height_o="1752" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42c192607d4ad85cd4c81af8307b109278d49ccfc5aead4237eeb4187012a3f4/HHHV4.jpg" data-mid="164308633" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42c192607d4ad85cd4c81af8307b109278d49ccfc5aead4237eeb4187012a3f4/HHHV4.jpg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/Under-The-Atmosphere-1 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:17:22 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/Under-The-Atmosphere-1 Under the Atmosphere ︎︎︎Excerpt <img width="975" height="717" width_o="975" height_o="717" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/afef727ef5ce06cb1e446e353ce23bb9a00e0c3672270337f8c0b825ff58bd0c/UTA_STILL2.jpg" data-mid="164309038" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/975/i/afef727ef5ce06cb1e446e353ce23bb9a00e0c3672270337f8c0b825ff58bd0c/UTA_STILL2.jpg" /> 2014, 16mm, 14:30"Referring to the narrowness of the peninsula, they claimed it would not be able to withstand such a great explosion and would be blown to pieces the moment the cannon was fired. 'Then let it be blown to pieces' the Floridians replied." Filmed on the Central Florida "Space Coast", site of NASA's launch pads. Dormant spacecraft, arcane text, activated landscape, and the surface of the image work towards a future-past shot reverse shot. SCREENINGS:2014 Toronto International Film Festival - Wavelengths2014 New York Film Festival - Projections2014 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam2015 Arisia Science Fiction Film Festival2015 Dallas Medianale2015 Florida Experimental Film Festival 2015 $100 Film Festival2015 Chicago Underground Film Festival 2015 Athens International Film and Video Festival - AWARD - Best Experimental Film2015 Courtisane Festival2015 Crossroads Festival2015 European Media Art Festival - Osnabrück <img width="1276" height="946" width_o="1276" height_o="946" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54f5210b2c51f84c0bf4251b9257447e7b8267dddd2d7093e762a934957aaa63/UTAannaJON.jpg" data-mid="164309041" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54f5210b2c51f84c0bf4251b9257447e7b8267dddd2d7093e762a934957aaa63/UTAannaJON.jpg" /> <img width="1000" height="738" width_o="1000" height_o="738" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec1f4497eccfc0fae9b4c6cc2e2222779b8ee2f6af0daafb05d79ea12df419a5/UTA_STILL5.jpg" data-mid="164309040" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec1f4497eccfc0fae9b4c6cc2e2222779b8ee2f6af0daafb05d79ea12df419a5/UTA_STILL5.jpg" /> <img width="640" height="486" width_o="640" height_o="486" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d262d3a55365dea2bba88d78e1cd39e5412c6058c3b76ca547b543bd7a3b643c/UTAstill1.jpg" data-mid="164309042" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/640/i/d262d3a55365dea2bba88d78e1cd39e5412c6058c3b76ca547b543bd7a3b643c/UTAstill1.jpg" /> <img width="978" height="725" width_o="978" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2528ab6768370e97be7711a45482f851ba4c77dfe65839a96c2aba86d6dcab23/UTA_STILL1.jpg" data-mid="164309037" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/978/i/2528ab6768370e97be7711a45482f851ba4c77dfe65839a96c2aba86d6dcab23/UTA_STILL1.jpg" /> https://mikestoltz.org/With-Pluses-and-Minuses-1 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 04:42:52 +0000 Mike Stoltz https://mikestoltz.org/With-Pluses-and-Minuses-1 With Pluses and Minuses ︎︎︎Excerpt <img width="1448" height="1080" width_o="1448" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4b04e8a5e3f9a8f595703bd7f05ba52384c473cfa84622b79655ad3a416bb19/StoltzWPAM2.jpg" data-mid="164310087" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4b04e8a5e3f9a8f595703bd7f05ba52384c473cfa84622b79655ad3a416bb19/StoltzWPAM2.jpg" /> 2013, 16mm, 5:00 "This morning the window blew its glass onto my face. Real morning with pluses and minuses (my symbols for truth)" A ground-less and boundless 16mm film in which a wall becomes a window to a swirling landscape. "...Stoltz shakes and dislocates audio and image with volume and pitch variations, editing the 16mm film in camera, varying the focus and the shot length of every frame, shifting background and foreground, turning and spinning the camera hand-held positions, and allowing sequences of black that punctuate the image’s algorithms. The filmmaker’s dance transforms abstraction into personal experience. He is an active agent of the surrounding world, and of the opportunities that open and close before us." -Mónica Savirón, LUMIÈRE Fall 2013 SCREENINGS:2014 Ann Arbor Film Festival2014 Hong Kong International Film Festival - Avant Garde Program2014 Edinburgh International Film Festival - Sonic Spaces2014 Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independente2014 CROSSROADS2014 Australian International Experimental Film Festival2014 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival2014 Sight Unseen Cinema, Baltimore, MD2013 New York Film Festival - Views From the Avant-Garde2013 DINCA Vision Quest2013 Magic Lantern Cinema2013 Balagan Cinema, Boston MA2013 Machine Project <img width="1444" height="1076" width_o="1444" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a538b918731539dc20a033e1964d7e62ee9dfc9d2cae2e8988077506c421ccb4/StoltzWPAM1.jpg" data-mid="164310086" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a538b918731539dc20a033e1964d7e62ee9dfc9d2cae2e8988077506c421ccb4/StoltzWPAM1.jpg" /> <img width="2550" height="3300" width_o="2550" height_o="3300" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/434eeb4098112c040f452d6ab9f1566da8fad1aae0ddc884eccfee5ccb5b32e4/WPAMflickerframes.jpg" data-mid="164310091" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/434eeb4098112c040f452d6ab9f1566da8fad1aae0ddc884eccfee5ccb5b32e4/WPAMflickerframes.jpg" /> <img width="1444" height="1078" width_o="1444" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/069868d8c76db76c4d3a71b643bce436c0767e1b489e2715dae228bca048b8f8/StoltzWPAM4.jpg" data-mid="164310089" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/069868d8c76db76c4d3a71b643bce436c0767e1b489e2715dae228bca048b8f8/StoltzWPAM4.jpg" /> <img width="1025" height="1500" width_o="1025" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a91f82c13c41a36013196b01295e082e4159ba6f5dced1824cf9ecf481a6fc0/WpamFrames.jpg" data-mid="164310094" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8a91f82c13c41a36013196b01295e082e4159ba6f5dced1824cf9ecf481a6fc0/WpamFrames.jpg" />