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Using animated black and white photographs with sound, Interior Lights depicts an imaginary house drawn from the interiors of different homes. The video features ordinary lamps that reveal intimate parts of rooms and close ups of objects and furniture. Audio recordings of the sound generated by the electromagnetic field unique to each light source provide the soundtrack for the
video.

Photography/Imagery: Lynn Silverman
Sound/Composition: Jason Sloan
Image editing/Assembly: Sara Hill

  • Jason Sloan
    Director
  • Lynn Silverman
    Director
  • Lynn Silverman
    Photography
  • Jason Sloan
    Score | Soundtrack
  • Sara Hill
    Image editing/Assembly:
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 56 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 25, 2019
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • It Can Begin With Clouds - MICA Curated Faculty Exhibition
    Baltimore
    United States
    November 1, 2019
    North American Premiere
Distribution Information
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Director Biography - Jason Sloan, Lynn Silverman

Jason Sloan:

Jason Sloan is an electronic musician, composer, and sound artist practicing in Baltimore, Md. His sound art explores immateriality and its relationship to memory, systems and the virtual world.

In 2012 Jason began working under the moniker L’Avenir. This project explores Sloan’s long time love of dark synth and minimal wave music. L’Avenir’s music is created purely from analog, modular and/or vintage synthesizer equipment and has released multiple albums on Barcelona’s Cold Beats Records, Germany’s Eins:Zwei:Acht and Beläten in Sweden. L’Avenir continues to release LPs, perform live around the world and has now become Sloan’s main creative project.

Sloan received his BFA from Edinboro University and his MFA from Towson University. His sound installations and video art have been exhibited internationally. In addition to releasing over a twenty studio albums and E.P.’s over the last two decades, Sloan has played live all over the US, Canada and Europe including the influential Live Constructions radio program at Columbia University, Berlin’s Liquid Sky TV, STEIM in Amsterdam, CMMAS in Morelia, and Philadelphia’s The Gatherings concert series; one of the country’s oldest continuing electronic music series in the world.

Sloan is a Professor teaching full-time in the Interactive Arts department in addition to being the founder and program director of the Sound Art program at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland.

Lynn Silverman:

Lynn Silverman received her BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and MA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths’ College in London, England. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, Australia, and the United States. In addition to publishing four books, her photographs can be found in public and private collections in Australia, US, and Great Britain.

In 2010, Lynn was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach and photograph in the Czech Republic. In 2018 her work was included in Outlook-Insight: Windows in the Arts, at the Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homberg, Germany.

Recent solo shows include Still Light and Works in Black and White at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore, Maryland and the Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, respectively.

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Director Statement

The interiors of our homes are unique; they reveal a lot about us as individuals. However, most houses share a common blueprint in the way the interior is partitioned into various rooms. Using animated black and white photographs with sound, Interior Lights depicts an imaginary house that is a composite of views drawn from different homes.

This film features ordinary lamps that reveal intimate parts of rooms and close ups of objects. The individual response to making a house a home can be seen in the choice of objects and furniture as well as in the presence of family photographs, children’s toys, houseplants, artwork, and other personal memorabilia that may be on display. Audio recordings of the sound generated by the electromagnetic field unique to each light source provide the soundtrack for the video.

The visual and sonic journey in Interior Lights consists of a series of dissolves, overlaps, multiple layers, and abrupt flashes (like switching a light on and off), which creates a dynamic relationship between one still image and the next. As the video moves from the basement to the bedroom, the narrative may feel like an excerpt from a film noir or sci-fi movie, with light and sound as the connecting thread between frames.