Reworking the surface of the film my work explores the tension between states of consciousness and unconsciousness. As an experimental filmmaker, I work with abstraction to get in touch with the subliminal feelings and memories buried within us, reworking my findings to ask further questions. Through use of hand processing, optical printing I take these traditional images and alter them as well to create new thoughts and ideas. Manipulations of the actual film, and camera less filmmaking are techniques learned from the Avant-Garde and through juxtaposition I attempt to move forward and push beyond the traditional frame of the camera, and the frame of traditional thought process.

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Mar 26, 2024

LIMEN

Mar 26, 2024

2023

Digital Animation and 16mm

2:57

A limen is a sensory threshold of a physiological or psychological response. In this short film, Roscina applies this concept to the abstraction of a changing environment. At what point will the perception of these changes become strong enough to elicit change? Utilizing mattes and archival footage these composited elements are transformed into a final work that explores environmental melancholia, complacency and the complexity of these issues.

Mar 26, 2024

Crystallize

Mar 26, 2024

2022

16mm and video

5:20

Illuminating varying temporalities of memory and employing durational aesthetics, Crystalize works against a linear timeline, exploring how memories are formed—or crystalize—and are retained. Against a backdrop of temporal polyphony, time is inscribed very differently in the materials of the bubbles and the quartz: echoing short term memory recall and deep recollection, respectively.

Mar 26, 2024

Burnt Tips

Mar 26, 2024

2022

16mm

2:18

This short film is composed entirely of light-leaked, “unusable” 16mm film scraps, which in the editing room would normally be trimmed off and discarded. This recycled artwork maintains interest in calling its own material “useful” rather than refuse—bridging the binaries between waste and wanted. The result is a time-based search for aesthetics in the obscured, that which is fleeting and the non-visible.

Mar 26, 2024

Mar 29, 2024

All that Digging

Mar 29, 2024

2022

16mm, video (color), VHS family archives

9:16

Resurfacing her own family home movies, Roscina made this work during the transition to new motherhood and its content traverses across time from her childhood to the early weeks with her own son. All that Digging, a sort of visual lullaby, touches on the less frequently discussed melancholy of motherhood, and the grief that can come from relinquishing parts of pre-parenthood life. Roscina explores the tension between being enclosed by the nest of domesticity, the fleetingness of this volatile yet precious time, and what can be gained through the act of letting go.

Mar 29, 2024

Mar 26, 2024

Chrysalis

Mar 26, 2024

2022

16mm, Super 8, animated paper collage

3:39

Through the eyes of a sleep deprived mother, Chrysalis is a trance-like journey spiraling through the vivid but ephemeral levels of hypnagogia to night’s oneiric center, then contracting back again to wakefulness. During sleep, the “chrysalis” is the intermediate phase of enclosure where inner and outer worlds of consciousness meet—facilitating a sheltered stage of internal growth and change. While deep sleep and vivid dreams remain a far cry for those with sleep training babies, this liminal state of dreaming is a further metaphor for the myriad oscillations of parenthood itself.

Mar 26, 2024

Apr 10, 2024

Seed Summer Tomb

Apr 10, 2024

2021

16mm, video (color, b+w), VHS family archives

15:25

A past winter, I lost my beloved grandmother. A few days later I found out that I was pregnant with my first child. My grief was tempered by excitement for what was to come. I could not help but speculate that the timing of her passing spirit had something to do with my child’s conception. This experimental film is based on the only recorded interview I did with her. Seed Summer Tomb investigates temporal echoes, maternal cycles, the metamorphosis of the female body, changing forms of energy, and the thresholds of consciousness.

Apr 10, 2024

Mar 26, 2024

Distilled

Mar 26, 2024

My short film Distilled is grounded in the way that we form and recall memories. It is an attempt to take a home movie and distill it down to its essence. I am interested in going beyond the notion of freezing time as in a photograph, but instead layering time to uncover a time based video’s deeper character. The entire film is based off of a short clip of my son Sylvan laughing, spinning and falling down, which is seen in the first section of the film. The second section uses a visual patchwork synthesizer called Max MSP to randomize the frames and audio from the original clip every quarter second. I then took these hundreds of frames and layered them on top of eachother in the timeline, which resulted in the third section. The fourth and final section consists of further layering the audio into a 1 second long gesture and distilling down the color of the videos to the “median color”. What is heard are all of the sounds that were in the original clip, all at once. In each section I am breaking down the original video the way that time might break down or alter a memory. I am attempting to uncover the essence of this short clip, distilling it down to its most basic form, be it abstracted. As I have layered these hundreds of clips, I am further commenting on the ways our photo ‘memories’ are uploaded and stored in the cloud. The enormous quantity of photos and ability to rapidly find them can sometimes result in a blur when remembering, which is the conclusion my film draws. In my film I have established a timeline that is not horizontal, but vertical.

Mar 26, 2024

Feb 9, 2021

In the Yards

Feb 9, 2021

In the Yards is a short portrait film about the historic stockyards at the National Western Stock Show. While dormant for many months of the year, the stockyards come alive every January with unbelievable force -- housing and hosting cowboys, characters and creatures from all walks of life. 2019 Resident Artist Eileen Roscina spent every day of the Stock Show itself, as well as the weeks before and after, observing and documenting life in the yards. The film was shot on 16mm film, and features a soundtrack with an original musical composition. (2020)

16mm

Feb 9, 2021

Oct 29, 2018

Hireath

Oct 29, 2018

Hireath is a Welsh word with no direct English translation. It addresses a deep sense of nostalgia and homesickness, while considering extinction and the climate changing before our eyes. Hireath is having a deep longing for the place where our spirit lives or a place we can no longer go back to. (2018)

16mm

Oct 29, 2018

Nov 8, 2018

On the Tip of My Tongue

Nov 8, 2018

Using Encyclopedia Britannica Archival Footage this film tests the limits of the human brains bandwidth and ability to recall. Is access to quick information causing our memory to atrophy? What is the impact of technology on our ability to form knowledge? (2018)

video

Nov 8, 2018

Mar 26, 2014

Brown and Holy

Mar 26, 2014

A visual postcard, shot during a cross-country bicycle ride--viewed through my grandmother’s eyes and her unscripted narration; memory, mobility, and immobility emerge as themes.

Super-8

Mar 26, 2014

Dec 11, 2019

Nothing Ever Seems to Work Out for Me

Dec 11, 2019

This 16mm optically printed film playing on a looper touches on the idea of frame lines and what is outside of the frame of a photo. This piece is a very slow zoom-out on a relatively static image exploring the idea of a prolonged perception shift and increased narrative potential as more information slowly becomes available. (2019, silent)

16mm

Dec 11, 2019

Apr 24, 2017

This Person Is...

Apr 24, 2017

This film draws from the Structuralist Film movement of the 1960s, and uses Morse Code to spell out sentences depicting the feelings of the woman on screen. Using dots (2 frames) and dashes (5 frames) animated postures create "words" that illustrate emotions like sadness, excitement, anger. (2014, silent)

16mm

Apr 24, 2017

Mar 26, 2014

La Petite Mort

Mar 26, 2014

A meditation on the divine, orgasms, and awakening through loss. (2009, silent)

16mm

Mar 26, 2014

Mar 27, 2014

La Luz Del Perdon

Mar 27, 2014

Hand processed and hand-manipulated, this work translates the spectrum of emotions felt when presenting personal gender-fluid sexuality and confronting heteronormative expectations. Utilizing symbolism, abstract imagery, reconstructed memories and family footage, this personal documentary is also a rumination on forgiveness. (2009)

16mm

Mar 27, 2014

Jun 19, 2020

Arrive Immediately, Retreat Slowly

Jun 19, 2020

Regarding the ineffable, the narrative of this film does not exist on screen, but instead exists in the act of the viewer watching the montage. The sequence of the shots does not lead to a conclusion, but instead proposes the actual and present moment and offers open poetic articulations of vision as the narrative experience. Shot on location in Ireland and Oaxaca, Mexico. (2016, silent)

16mm

Jun 19, 2020

From Away

Jun 19, 2020

Filmed in "Down-east" Maine, this film shot from the perspective of an outsider looking into an intimate, rural environment. A foreigner often referred to by locals as being "from away". (2015)

16mm

Jun 19, 2020