Margaret Rorison

Margaret Rorison

Margaret Rorison is filmmaker and curator from Baltimore, MD. Her current work focuses on alternative photographic processes, experimentation, and DIY methods of analog filmmaking. Her moving image work has been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Miami PULSE Art Fair, Mono No Aware VI & VII, Microscope Gallery, The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Rorison won The 2018 Baker Artist Award for Film, she is a recipient of a 2016 Rubys Artist Project Grants, a recipient of The 2019 and 2016 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards and a 2015 Sondheim Semi-finalist. She is the co-founder and curator of the film series Sight Unseen which focuses on bringing contemporary image-based work to Baltimore. The series started as a roaming entity in 2012 and now has a permanent home at The SNF Parkway Theatre in Baltimore City. She works as an audiovisual specialist at The National Gallery of Art and teaches filmmaking and photography at The Baltimore School for the Arts, The Maryland Institute College of Art and Anne Arundel Community College.

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  • Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • Homepage: http://margaretrorison.com/
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Margaret Rorison Movies

  • 2015
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    One Document for Hope

    One Document for Hope

    6 2015 HD

    The sterile and procedural narrative of the Baltimore City Police Scanner recorded on Monday April 27 against precious moments of gathering,...

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  • 2012
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    The Birds of Chernobyl

    The Birds of Chernobyl

    7 2012 HD

    An ode to Rorison's grandfather Harry Bennett who made a living as a painter for Gothic and Romance novels in the 60s and 70s. He spent much of his...

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  • 2014
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    Funes el memorioso

    Funes el memorioso

    10 2014 HD

    534 frames of Regular 8mm blown up to 16mm using the JK Optical Printer.

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  • 2015
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    The Road to Kalmar

    The Road to Kalmar

    10 2015 HD

    She moved to Vårdinge, then to Kalmar in 1908. She left on May 8, 1909 for North America to meet a man who never showed up to greet her. She...

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  • 2017
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    Memory of August

    Memory of August

    10 2017 HD

    A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a...

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  • 2017
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    Gedanken aus der Luft

    Gedanken aus der Luft

    10 2017 HD

    Polluted clouds of burning coal dominate the skies. Meditations on a shifting landscape of what once was former East Berlin.

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  • 2019
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    understory

    understory

    10 2019 HD

    This film is an ode to navigation, an adaptation to silences, deafening cries. A personal navigation through four seasons of loss. A series of...

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  • 2012
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    SCANSION

    SCANSION

    10 2012 HD

    SCANSION is a short 16mm film composed of extensive walks through various Baltimore landscapes. The film has been hand edited like a poem, where cuts...

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  • 2013
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    The Waiting Sands

    The Waiting Sands

    8 2013 HD

    My grandfather, Harry Bennett was a huge influence on me as a young artist and thinker. He was a painter and had made a living as an illustrator for...

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  • 2013
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    PULL/DRIFT

    PULL/DRIFT

    8 2013 HD

    This film documents a unique choreographed performance that took place one late summer afternoon in Patapsco State Park in Baltimore, Maryland....

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  • 2021
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    Baltimore

    Baltimore

    10 2021 HD

    A montage of the underpopulated streets, shuddered storefronts, and crumbling cornices of Baltimore City suggests a disturbed, mind’s eye...

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  • 2014
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    vindmøller

    vindmøller

    10 2014 HD

    A study of the monolithic wind turbines along the shores of Amager, Copenhagen, Denmark. Triple exposed on one roll of color film, then finding four...

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  • 2015
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    Dark Logic

    Dark Logic

    10 2015 HD

    An ode to the restricted space and surveillance in the skies.

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  • 2012
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    Gowanus Haze

    Gowanus Haze

    10 2012 HD

    The filmmaker returns to her old neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The footage captures a landscape known as The Gowanus Canal, an area of...

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  • 2024
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    emergence

    emergence

    1 2024 HD

    A series of summer occurrences, an observation of life cycles. Shot on 16mm BW Reversal film and hand-processed by the artist.

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  • 2024
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    Was It a Dream or a Memory

    Was It a Dream or a Memory

    1 2024 HD

    Filmed during the performance of "The Return" at CPM Gallery in Baltimore, MD on September 16, 2022. Sound, looped: "The Fields Would Slowly...

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  • 2018
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    Sympathetic Bodies

    Sympathetic Bodies

    1 2018 HD

    "Sympathetic Bodies" (Official Video) by Byron Westbrook from Body Consonance LP (2017) on Hands in the Dark Records Hand-processed and shot on BW...

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  • 2013
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    DER SPAZIERGANG

    DER SPAZIERGANG

    10 2013 HD

    This film documents long walks throughout Berlin, Germany during the cold days of April, 2013. The film is edited in camera and composed of single...

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