
Person
Paul Clipson
Directing · 1965–2018 · UK
Biography
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

Mayrah
Director

At Hand
Director

Ruminant
Director

Hypnosis Display
Director

Feeler
Director

Made of Air
Director

Headache
Director

Ephemeris
Director

Lighthouse
Director

La Paloma
Director
Filmography
- 2018Zebulon FootageDirector
- 2018At HandDirector
- 2017Toxic City Music - Evan Caminiti & Paul Clipson at ISSUE Project RoomDirector
- 2017TendernessDirector
- 2017Total FictionDirector
- 2017Spectral AscensionDirector
- 2017Cruel OptimismDirector
- 2017HeadacheDirector
- 2016Love's RefrainDirector
- 2016FeelerDirector
- 2016Fell on My FaceDirector
- 2016MayrahDirector
- 2015Disporting with a ShadowDirector
- 2015LighthouseDirector
- 2015Come OnDirector
- 2014Transparent ThingsDirector
- 2014Made of AirDirector
- 2014Hypnosis DisplayDirector
- 2014The Liquid Casket / Wilderness of MirrorsDirector
- 2014Love After LoveDirector
- 2014Pulsars e QuasarsDirector
- 2014La PalomaDirector
- 2014Light YearDirector
- 2014TrajectionsDirector
- 2013Void ReduxDirector
- 2013Difficult LovesDirector
- 2013Bright MirrorDirector
- 2013Make Visible the GhostDirector
- 2013Other StatesDirector
- 2012E.S.P. TV #20Director
- 2012Landscape DissolvesDirector
- 2012The Crystal TextDirector
- 2012Speaking CorpseDirector
- 2012Another VoidDirector
- 2012AbsteigendDirector
- 2012OriginDirector
- 2011Compound EyesDirector
- 2011Dark PassageDirector
- 2011AraneaeDirector
- 2011OdonataDirector
- 2011Diptera and LepidopteraDirector
- 2011Caridea and IchthyesDirector
- 2011EphemerisDirector
- 2010Light from the MesaDirector
- 2010RuminantDirector
- 2010UnionDirector
- 2010LightmazeDirector
- 2009Sphinx on the SeineCinematography
- 2009ChorusDirector
- 2008Within MirrorsDirector
- 2008The Phantom HarpDirector
- 2008Moth & MoonDirector
- 2007PassagewaysDirector
- 2007CorridorsDirector
- 2007Echo ParkDirector
- 2007Sun PlaceDirector
- 2007TuolumneDirector
- 2007Bend SinisterDirector
- 2006EarthlightDirector
- 2006Watercolor Night Montage No. 7Director
- 2006The Lights & PerfectionsDirector
- 2006ConstellationsDirector
- 2006Over WaterDirector
- 2005Two SunsDirector
- 2005Big Black SquareDirector
- 2004Bump Past Cut Up Through WindowsDirector
- 2004Put It on the GroundDirector
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