Graduate Student Spotlight
Graduate Student Spotlight
Anna and the Analog Film
Anna and the Analog Film
Rising second year RLL student, Anna Brotman-Krass, made a short experimental analog film in collaboration with Las Caminantas, a theater troupe and activist collective of care workers based in Madrid, Spain. The film, Cuidar, was most recently screened at The Odds and Ends Experimental Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia last April. Cuidar was made possible by funds from RLL and a U-M Library Student Mini Grant.
This summer, Anna was awarded the Rackham Public Scholarship Grant, the International Institute’s Global Individual Grant, and Weiser Center Summer Grant, as well as the University of Michigan’s President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights Grant in order to produce, shoot, and edit another collaborative analog film on politics of care, domestic labor, migration, and transatlantic performance-based feminist social movements. For this film, she will be continuing her long standing collaboration with artist-activist-care workers collective Territorio Doméstico during her stay in Madrid.
Anna has been working with 16mm film since 2018, fostering a dedication that stems from her appreciation for its tangible and physical affordances. Her practice revolves around a belief that the material artistic process engages care as simultaneously manual and tactile as well as an intrinsically emotional process. She often cuts and reassembles footage by hand, an approach that allows her to engage intimately with her project on care and resistance. This physical manipulation of film enhances her relationship with her work, foregrounding the tactile, material quality of 16mm film that digital methods do not.
Rising second year RLL student, Anna Brotman-Krass, made a short experimental analog film in collaboration with Las Caminantas, a theater troupe and activist collective of care workers based in Madrid, Spain. The film, Cuidar, was most recently screened at The Odds and Ends Experimental Short Film Festival in Charlottesville, Virginia last April. Cuidar was made possible by funds from RLL and the UM Library Student Mini Grant.
This summer, Anna was awarded the Rackham Public Scholarship Grant, the International Institute’s Global Individual Grant, and Weiser Center Summer Grant, as well as the University of Michigan’s President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights Grant in order to produce, shoot, and edit another collaborative analog film on politics of care, domestic labor, migration, and transatlantic performance-based feminist social movements. For this film, she will be continuing her long standing collaboration with artist-activist-care workers collective Territorio Doméstico during her stay in Madrid.
Anna has been working with 16mm film since 2018, fostering a dedication that stems from her appreciation for its tangible and physical affordances. Her practice revolves around a belief that the material artistic process engages care as simultaneously manual and tactile as well as an intrinsically emotional process. She often cuts and reassembles footage by hand, an approach that allows her to engage intimately with her project on care and resistance. This physical manipulation of film enhances her relationship with her work, foregrounding the tactile, material quality of 16mm film that digital methods do not.
Stills from Anna's film:
Take a look at some stills from Anna's film:
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