MAY 8, 2025
The Brattle, 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA, USA
Experimental Echoes
Live Music Meets Silent Film
Featuring music from Annie Dodson
Made possible by a grant from NEFA
The Brattle, 40 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA, USA
Experimental Echoes
Live Music Meets Silent Film
Featuring music from Annie Dodson
Made possible by a grant from NEFA
Experimental Echoes: Live Music Meets Silent Films is an interdisciplinary art event at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA, merging live music and silent films for an immersive experience. Featuring original compositions by electroacoustic composer Annie Dodson, performed live as a synchronized score to silent films, this event aims to push artistic boundaries.
Dodson’s work delves into themes of ecology, sensitivity, queerness, and intimacy through slow, repetitive processes.
16mm films from Malic Amalya and Hogan Seidel
i walked away with the garden's weeds (2025) – 6:18 min
Hogan Seidel
Using garden weeds both as a subject and a material, this 16mm film investigates the value we assign to plants in the context of gardening. The process involves crafting a black-and-white developer from weeds like goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, and bull thistle while also imprinting their forms directly onto film using direct animation.
Through a queer lens, Seidel explores the weed as a metaphor for transness and queerness—digging, spreading, and flourishing into untamed beauty while simultaneously facing efforts of control and eradication. This film weaves together experimental processes and metaphorical reflections, embracing the untamed and undervalued.
Drifting (2010) – 18 min
A Film by Malic Amalya
Shot on an optical printer, damaged frames from 8mm home movies have been re-photographed onto 16mm film stock. By exposing the photographic anomalies of film, Drifting invites the audience to savor the photographic physicality of the media while also asking them to consider how framing mediates their viewing experience and understanding of images.
Dodson’s work delves into themes of ecology, sensitivity, queerness, and intimacy through slow, repetitive processes.
16mm films from Malic Amalya and Hogan Seidel
i walked away with the garden's weeds (2025) – 6:18 min
Hogan Seidel
Using garden weeds both as a subject and a material, this 16mm film investigates the value we assign to plants in the context of gardening. The process involves crafting a black-and-white developer from weeds like goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, and bull thistle while also imprinting their forms directly onto film using direct animation.
Through a queer lens, Seidel explores the weed as a metaphor for transness and queerness—digging, spreading, and flourishing into untamed beauty while simultaneously facing efforts of control and eradication. This film weaves together experimental processes and metaphorical reflections, embracing the untamed and undervalued.
Drifting (2010) – 18 min
A Film by Malic Amalya
Shot on an optical printer, damaged frames from 8mm home movies have been re-photographed onto 16mm film stock. By exposing the photographic anomalies of film, Drifting invites the audience to savor the photographic physicality of the media while also asking them to consider how framing mediates their viewing experience and understanding of images.