https://terralong.ca Terra Long Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:40:55 +0000 https://terralong.ca en https://terralong.ca/Slideshow Wed, 17 Feb 2021 07:21:04 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/Slideshow https://terralong.ca/Feet-in-Water-Head-on-Fire Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:22:17 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/Feet-in-Water-Head-on-Fire Feet in Water, Head on Fire <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69615aa42ccf031ba0d4206c7e97bb71e1e437851ea6186262de0aa62cb2c804/001_Costumes_on_fault.jpg" data-mid="169969339" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69615aa42ccf031ba0d4206c7e97bb71e1e437851ea6186262de0aa62cb2c804/001_Costumes_on_fault.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fcd8d7805a4f380212ba6d6c0a91db6ca57bb6a6a7f3d8c5ce74abaf46db1faa/004a_Harvest00202927.jpg" data-mid="169969979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fcd8d7805a4f380212ba6d6c0a91db6ca57bb6a6a7f3d8c5ce74abaf46db1faa/004a_Harvest00202927.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1a49e384c3bf89154690dcb6d6751b16d961f33079bcf24f601f09679c210a0c/006_b_w_frond00158852.jpg" data-mid="169969971" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1a49e384c3bf89154690dcb6d6751b16d961f33079bcf24f601f09679c210a0c/006_b_w_frond00158852.jpg" /> &nbsp; 2023 | 90 Min | 16mm - DCP&nbsp; Press KitSynopsis&nbsp; &nbsp; Terra Long’s feature debut is a breathtaking portrait of California’s Coachella Valley that is both anchored in the specifics of place and community, while freely exploring the limits of cinematic time and space. Shaped by seismic forces of the San Andreas Fault, the Coachella Valley is home to an agricultural community built around the date palm trees introduced to the region in the early 1900s. Today, the land and its people face combined threats from economic upheaval, US immigration policy and climate change. With an elliptical grace, Long’s film spans vast expanses of geological time and sweeping desert landscapes into extreme close-ups of the region’s plant and insect life, where microscopic views of cellular biology trace intimate stories of human connection. Beautifully shot on 16mm film and featuring hand-processing techniques that incorporate plants native to the Coachella Valley into the film, Long’s documentary is grounded in place even on a material level. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; — J.C. Credits&nbsp; Directed + Camera | Terra Long Produced + Written | Mireya Martinez, Sharlene Bamboat + Terra Long Written with | Daniela Uribe Edit | Kaija Siirala + Terra Long Sound Design + Mix | Richy Carey Additional Camera | Alisha Tejpal Selected Press: Encounters with the Coachella Valley Landscape, Filmmaker A Great Divide,&nbsp;Reverse Shot Ode to the Natural World,&nbsp;VOX The Road to Mecca,&nbsp;Cinema Scope Palm Trees, Persian Myths, and Pageantry POV Magazine Selected Screenings: True / False Film Festival, Columbia, US First Look MoMI, NYC, US Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada DOXA, Vancouver, Canada&nbsp; DokuFest, Prizren, Kosovo&nbsp; Black Canvas Film Festival, CDMX, MexicoDok Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Unorthodocs Wexner Center, Columbus, US&nbsp; IDFA, Amsterdam, Netherlands RIDM, Montreal, Canada Sharjah Film Platform, UAE Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Turkey https://terralong.ca/vidloop0 Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:40:55 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/vidloop0 https://terralong.ca/350-MYA Sun, 14 Feb 2021 17:58:08 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/350-MYA 350 MYA <img width="1606" height="1144" width_o="1606" height_o="1144" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f4f4de88e1d79b200d7fecb7c558948003f097dc98e14b86ba9c7b180f2021e6/MYA350_3.jpg" data-mid="102425823" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f4f4de88e1d79b200d7fecb7c558948003f097dc98e14b86ba9c7b180f2021e6/MYA350_3.jpg" /> <img width="1605" height="1148" width_o="1605" height_o="1148" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4071caca512531d1d2c126f095e4e8e0011f515c580c86191c105e1230f220fc/MYA350_5.jpg" data-mid="102425825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4071caca512531d1d2c126f095e4e8e0011f515c580c86191c105e1230f220fc/MYA350_5.jpg" /> <img width="1503" height="1076" width_o="1503" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/44e4cc6a5286cf29cbbf2447c3ab868c1201b0a286a33213321be4b65cfefb59/350MYA_1.jpg" data-mid="102425821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/44e4cc6a5286cf29cbbf2447c3ab868c1201b0a286a33213321be4b65cfefb59/350MYA_1.jpg" /> <img width="1603" height="1149" width_o="1603" height_o="1149" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dae4ecb50b2d337a651242bdfd7063e10c40679f65c5edd19f87a3d49a41c636/350MYA_2.jpg" data-mid="102425822" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dae4ecb50b2d337a651242bdfd7063e10c40679f65c5edd19f87a3d49a41c636/350MYA_2.jpg" /> <img width="1604" height="1141" width_o="1604" height_o="1141" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b81158678f776dc1349ecae9eb48b3e52bd1642c8563e901e36a36eec76f710/MYA350_4.jpg" data-mid="102425824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b81158678f776dc1349ecae9eb48b3e52bd1642c8563e901e36a36eec76f710/MYA350_4.jpg" /> &nbsp; 2016 | 5 Min | 16mm“350 million years ago the Tafilalt region was the Rheic Ocean.” So we are informed at the end of Terra Long’s lovely formalist landscape study, which employs the sharp contrast of colored silk against sand and sky to emulate a kind of visual oasis. The material, undulating in the wind, is not a metaphor for the once-present waves. Rather, it demonstrates a time-frame separate from that of the desert itself, which is always in motion but whose geological existence is at a significant remove from human time. Adding an additional dimension to these images of differential flux, Long displays the work of the apparatus itself: slippage in frame registration, sprockets vibrating, and the specific meeting of the Moroccan sun and the surface of the lens. Each reflects a topography, and in turn a temporality all its own. — Michael Sicinski, Mubi Notebook Made during the Weight of Mountains film residency at Café Tissardmine in Morocco Selected Screenings Toronto International Film Festival, Wavelengths, CanadaInternational Film Festival Rotterdam, NetherlandsJihlava Film Festival, Czech RepublicMedia City Film Festival, Windsor, Detroit, Canada, USLA Film Forum: Mysteries Inside Facts curated by David Dinnell USLightfield, Sanfrancisco, US Festival Strangloscope, Florianópolis, BrazilExposure Kopernik Observatory, curated by Tomonari Nishikawa NY, US https://terralong.ca/vidloop1 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:37:04 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/vidloop1 https://terralong.ca/horses-in-the-year-of-the-dog Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:42:19 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/horses-in-the-year-of-the-dog Horses in the year of the dog <img width="2514" height="1876" width_o="2514" height_o="1876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/21e71d7c300f0bff2f0f804931f78e89fe19af242fee4f2d8f4f0b895a4d50e6/HYD_1.png" data-mid="102434048" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/21e71d7c300f0bff2f0f804931f78e89fe19af242fee4f2d8f4f0b895a4d50e6/HYD_1.png" /> <img width="740" height="556" width_o="740" height_o="556" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d1b38d73a314a4e3cdc347c65f46cd0e6ed2ff3b6f87c015aa6377b3d47482/HYD_2.jpg" data-mid="102434049" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/740/i/55d1b38d73a314a4e3cdc347c65f46cd0e6ed2ff3b6f87c015aa6377b3d47482/HYD_2.jpg" /> <img width="2510" height="1866" width_o="2510" height_o="1866" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a37d7c86942fe2926980d90927ef472cee67afb27aa0991d38389572bcbd884/HYD_3-.png" data-mid="102434050" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a37d7c86942fe2926980d90927ef472cee67afb27aa0991d38389572bcbd884/HYD_3-.png" /> <img width="2502" height="1872" width_o="2502" height_o="1872" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d45c39d6860a5c79af468bf5abf3d8a363b3deabae1c79061ef2024b2dcf8626/HYD_4.png" data-mid="102434051" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d45c39d6860a5c79af468bf5abf3d8a363b3deabae1c79061ef2024b2dcf8626/HYD_4.png" /> <img width="2492" height="1860" width_o="2492" height_o="1860" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d7fc84e7802c82a494f712120cb3373a81b535e8b4034a842471c8bec19f415e/HYD_5.png" data-mid="105607139" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d7fc84e7802c82a494f712120cb3373a81b535e8b4034a842471c8bec19f415e/HYD_5.png" /> 2018 | 6 min | 16mm | 2K | 5.1 Sound An immediate love forms between new friends considering motherhood under the roof of a fierce matriarch. Bodies become porous, and passage, bees pollinate the food we consume, becoming and belonging one to the other. Film developed in lavender, eucalyptus, and hibiscus grown on site. Filmed during the Site and Cycle residency at Casa Rural in Jalisco, Mexico. Select Festivals: Ann Arbor Film Festival EXiS Experimental Film &amp; Video Festival, Seoul, Korea. Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland, UK THOUSANDSUNS CINEMA Media City Film Festival, Online https://terralong.ca/Push-Pull-Recover Thu, 18 Mar 2021 08:29:33 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/Push-Pull-Recover Push&nbsp; &nbsp;//&nbsp;Pull&nbsp; &nbsp;//&nbsp;Recover 2013 | 3 min | HD | Stereo A meditation on motion through stillness with breath. Shot in single frames on 16mm and hand painted. Made at Philip Hoffman’s Process Cinema workshop at EICTV in Cuba. __ There is a large pool at the school. Every day I would swim – I thought of the pool as a container, a space that I could measure my body against. Much like the grounds of the school itself or the country defined against a body of water. Swimming can be a kind of meditative experience but there is also conflict inherent to the act of swimming, the body cutting against water, and the struggle to find rhythmic breathing. — Interview with Lili White AXW Blog __ Select Screenings Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland UK Images Film Festival Toronto, Canada Another Experiment by Women, Anthology Film Archives, NY, US Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago US Bain Argentiques International Film Labs Meeting, Nantes, France Dobra Festival Internacional de Cine Experimental, Brazil Material Desire and Experimental Film: Color and Chemistry, Kim Knowles Duke University, Durham, NC, US VTape, Medi(t)ating the Temporality of the Untimely, Toronto, Ontario https://terralong.ca/vidloop2 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:40:34 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/vidloop2 https://terralong.ca/The-Stammering-Alphabet Sun, 14 Feb 2021 18:35:54 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/The-Stammering-Alphabet The Stammering&nbsp; Alphabet <img width="1448" height="1075" width_o="1448" height_o="1075" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a6341852e653a356acacfde838a1a154aa3fda378a5732bbb83ab6b29fd5c37/Stammering-alphabet.Still001.jpg" data-mid="105607209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a6341852e653a356acacfde838a1a154aa3fda378a5732bbb83ab6b29fd5c37/Stammering-alphabet.Still001.jpg" /> 2019 | 8 min | Super 8mm Commissioned to make a Super 8 film in celebration of the 18th anniversary of the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, Sharlene Bamboat and Terra Long each took a roll and began a correspondence. Fragments of text, drawings, and divination techniques were shared and translated into images. Chasing the ephemeral, building a language of collaboration, The Stammering Alphabet is a playful correspondence film. Collaboration Sharlene Bamboat &amp; Terra Long Original MusicMilja Viita &amp; Terra Long ScreeningsEcho Park Film Center 18th Anniversarythe8festsmallgaugefilmfestival <img width="1445" height="1076" width_o="1445" height_o="1076" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c508af72d7b67a6297ad6fd6b65a8b234417a683782527e95484e93c254300a/Stammering-alphabet_003.jpg" data-mid="105607282" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c508af72d7b67a6297ad6fd6b65a8b234417a683782527e95484e93c254300a/Stammering-alphabet_003.jpg" /> <img width="1443" height="1078" width_o="1443" height_o="1078" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66d473c3a8a99520a9c86ce86503e35408fb2e13f93be922b939c97da2cbc6e1/Stammering-alphabet.Still002.jpg" data-mid="105607263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66d473c3a8a99520a9c86ce86503e35408fb2e13f93be922b939c97da2cbc6e1/Stammering-alphabet.Still002.jpg" /> https://terralong.ca/vidloop3 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:28:56 +0000 Terra Long https://terralong.ca/vidloop3