Survivalist Cinema 1 (Water)

Duration: 6 minutes
Materials: Video (appropriated footage processed with analog processing tools)

Artist Statement: Scenes from 1970s ecological disaster and survivalist films were sampled and processed using analog signal processing tools. During the residency I was able to take the time to isolate scenes specifically involving water and edit them into an experimental piece with a kind of dramatic arc.

About the Artist

Rachel Stevens is an NYC-based artist and researcher interested in social ecologies, critical geography and experimental media. As half of the collaboration Oyster City (with Meredith Drum) she created an Augmented Reality walking tour and game about oysters in NYC and the Fish Stories Community Cookbook, a publication for Paths to Pier 42 that drew together recipes, stories, drawings and ecological information contributed by people living and working in the Lower East Side. She is an editor of Millennium Film Journal and teaches in the Hunter College Integrated Media Art MFA. Recently Rachel has participated in residencies with Works on Water/Underwater New York, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, iLand and Signal Culture.