Thursday June 4 * 7pm * $10-20

We are pleased to present an evening of films by Margaret Rorison (Baltimore), who will be present for a discussion with the audience following the screening.

PROGRAM

emergence | 2024 | 16mm to video | B/W | sound | 2m
A series of summer occurrences, an observation of life cycles.
Shot on 16mm B&W Reversal film and hand-processed by the artist.

Memory of August | 2017 | 16mm | sound | 6m
A series of moments captured in room 139. Intimate spaces of time spent with my grandmother, Margaret during a month long recovery in a rehabilitation center in Baltimore, Maryland.

vindmøller | 2014 | 16mm | B/W | sound | 3m
This short film is a study of the monolithic wind turbines along the shores of Amager, Copenhagen. Triple exposed on one roll of color film, then finding four generations of grain. The soundtrack is a recorded live-improvisation by artist Mario de Vega using unstable media and acoustic resonators

One Document for Hope | 2016 | 16mm | B/W | sound | 8m
The sterile and procedural narrative of the Baltimore City Police Scanner recorded on Monday April 27 against precious moments of gathering, celebration and protest in Baltimore from April 28 – May 3, 2015.

BALTIMORE | 16mm to video | color | sound | 2021 | 22m
BALTIMORE catalogs the landscapes and architecture of the filmmaker’s hometown of Baltimore City. Personal and observational, this 16mm film, shot from 2016 to 2018, explores exterior spaces, material and psychic fragments of historic buildings, many of which have been demolished or renovated since the completion of the film.

DER SPAZIERGANG | 2013 | 16mm | color | sound | 3m
This film documents long walks throughout Berlin, Germany during the cold days of April, 2013.
The film is edited in camera and composed of single frame snapshots along with longer moments of glance, captured on one 100’ roll of film.
The title comes from a story by Robert Walser.

PULL/DRIFT | 2014 | 16mm to video | 9 minutes)
Ritual takes form amid a late summer landscape.
This film documents a unique choreographed performance that took place one late summer afternoon in Patapsco State Park in Baltimore, Maryland. Choreographed by Clarissa Stowell Gregory and performed by The Effervescent Collective. Soundtrack composed by Josh Millrod.

Grief | 2025 | 16mm to video | 1 min | silent
A vignette of moments holding life and death.

Chorus | 2018 | 16mm to video | 2m | silent
A cadence of history between one long pause.

TRT: 58 min

Margaret Rorison is a filmmaker, artist and educator from Baltimore, MD. Her work incorporates 16mm film, alternative photographic processes, poetry, and sound to explore her interests in portraiture, memory, and landscape. Her films have been exhibited at Miami PULSE Art Fair, Microscope Gallery, The Museum of The Moving Image, The National Gallery of Art, and The Walker Art Center. Her short films have shown at film festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival, Images Festival, Open City Documentary Film Festival, & FICUNAM in Mexico City. From 2012-2022, she directed Sight Unseen Screening Series, an experimental film series that brought contemporary filmmakers and curators to Baltimore to present their work.