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Ryan Marino

Half Light

Experimental film | 16mm | color | 10:0 | USA | 2023

Shot over a period of three years in a single interior space, this film explores sensory perception through the textural surface of expired film stock, light and layered images. Ephemeral moments meld into voids of grain.?

Ryan Marino is an New York-based artist working with film, sound, and collage. His 16mm films have screened at a variety of film festivals and venues including: Anthology Film Archives, New York Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Uplink (Tokyo), Venice Biennale, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, Spectacle Theater,? and Pacific Film Archive. In addition to creating the soundtracks for his own films, his sound work includes original compositions and commissioned soundtracks for short films and theater productions. By day he works as an audiovisual archivist.