About
Paul Clipson
Overview
Paul Clipson was a San Francisco-based filmmaker who often collaborated with sound artists and musicians on films, live performances, and installations. His work has been exhibited and performed both nationally and internationally at such festivals as the New York Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. His Super 8 and 16mm films aim to bring to light subconscious visual preoccupations that reveal themselves while working in a stream of consciousness manner, combining densely layered, in-camera edited studies of figurative and abstract environments, in a process that encourages unplanned-for results, responding to and conversing with the temporal qualities of musical composition and live performance. He recently premiered Hypsosis Display, a feature-length sound/16mm film collaboration with Grouper in the United Kingdom.
[bio courtesy of the filmmaker]
Known for
Directing |
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2018 | At Hand | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Toxic City Music - Evan Caminiti & Paul Clipson at ISSUE Project Room | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Tenderness | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Total Fiction | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Spectral Ascension | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2017 | Cruel Optimism | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2017 | Headache | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2016 | Love's Refrain | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2016 | Feeler | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2016 | Fell on My Face | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2016 | Mayrah | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Disporting with a Shadow | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2015 | Lighthouse | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2015 | Come On | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Transparent Things | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Made of Air | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2014 | Hypnosis Display | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2014 | The Liquid Casket / Wilderness of Mirrors | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Love After Love | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2014 | Pulsars e Quasars | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2014 | La Paloma | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2014 | Light Year | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2014 | Trajections | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Void Redux | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Difficult Loves | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Bright Mirror | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Make Visible the Ghost | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2013 | Other States | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | E.S.P. TV #20 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Landscape Dissolves | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2012 | The Crystal Text | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Speaking Corpse | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Another Void | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Absteigend | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2012 | Origin | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Compound Eyes | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Dark Passage | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Araneae | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Diptera and Lepidoptera | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Caridea and Ichthyes | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Ephemeris | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2011 | Odonata | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Light from the Mesa | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Ruminant | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Union | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2010 | Lightmaze | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2009 | Sphinx on the Seine | Directing | Director | 58 Average |
2009 | Chorus | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Within Mirrors | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | Moth & Moon | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2008 | The Phantom Harp | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2007 | Passageways | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Echo Park | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Bend Sinister | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Tuolumne | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Sun Place | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2007 | Corridors | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2006 | Earthlight | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Watercolor Night Montage No. 7 | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Constellations | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | Over Water | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2006 | The Lights & Perfections | Directing | Director | 59 Average |
2005 | Big Black Square | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2005 | Two Suns | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | Bump Past Cut Up Through Windows | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
2004 | Put It on the Ground | Directing | Director | N/A N/A |
Camera |
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2014 | Transparent Things | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
2014 | Love After Love | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
2004 | Put It on the Ground | Camera | Director of Photography | N/A N/A |
Crew |
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2012 | The Crystal Text | Crew | Cinematography | N/A N/A |
2009 | Sphinx on the Seine | Crew | Cinematography | 58 Average |
Editing |
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2014 | Transparent Things | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2014 | Love After Love | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |
2004 | Put It on the Ground | Editing | Editor | N/A N/A |