Alone, Apart: the dream reveals the waking day

(2004) 16mm, sound, color, 7 mins.

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Fulton Fish Market

(2003) 35mm, sound, color, 12 mins.

“…blends scenes of the legendary waterfront market filmed in the early hours of the morning with hand-painted, emulsion-scratched abstractions turning the place into something beautiful and mysterious.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times

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At Home and Asea

(2002) Video, color, sound, 70 mins.

“In At Home and Asea, Five Baltimore residents grapple –no self pity allowed–with their feelings of being stuck in lives that are less than meaningful. Street’s amalgam of documentary and fiction is poignant and, thanks to Guy Yarden’s score, anxiety-provoking. It’s also a subtly crafted portrait of an economically blighted city, pulled between North and South and central to neither.” – Amy Taubin, Village Voice

Experimental filmmaker Mark Street, who lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, returns to Filmforum with the L.A. premiere of At Home and Asea (2002), a collage of portraits charting the disillusionment shared by a group of Baltimore denizens. Street, whose previous work includes striking abstract pieces, as well as films in which he’s scratched and bleached the emulsion, here works with digital video; this allows him to capture intimate and casual moments with his subjects, who include three single mothers, a 23-year-old beer-drinking slacker and a man trying to understand his deceased father’s lpge by revisiting what the elderly man left behind. While it’s never entirely clear what’s scripted and what’s real, the video nevertheless gradually acquires a weighty torpor as the characters fight the inertia wrought by the exhausting, uphill struggle to create lives that live up to expectations. Street has always been adept at aligning invisible emotions with their physical counterparts, and here he perfectly captures his subjects’ anomie with images of Baltimore’s anonymous buildings and blighted neighborhoods. Their growing despair is perhaps best embodied, though, in shots showing boats bobbing slowly up and down on the gray water against the evanescent, lead-colored fog.” – Holly Willis, LA Weekly 

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Guiding Fictions

(2002) 35mm, color, sound, 5 mins.

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Brooklyn Promenade

(2001) 16mm/dvcam., 3 mins.

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Happy?

(2000) BetaSP, color, sound., 20 mins

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Sliding off the Edge of the World

(2000) 35mm (16mm print available), silent, color., 7 mins.

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Sweep

(1998) 16mm, color, sound., 7 mins

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The Domestic Universe

(2001) color, sound, video., 17 mins
“The Domestic Universe is a poetic meditation on intimacy and the swoon of new fatherhood… often assumes the visual perspective of a crawling, exploring child. But mostly the movie captures the shifting tectonics of gender roles.“ – Ann Hornaday, Baltimore Sun

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Why Live Here?

(1996) 16mm, sound, color., 60 mins

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Triptych

(1995) 16mm, color, sound, triple projection., 13 mins

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Excursions

(1994) 16mm, color, sound., 26 mins

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Blue Movie

(1994) 16mm, color, sound., 5 mins

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Missing Something Somewhere

(1992) 16mm, color, sound, 17 mins

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Echo Anthem

(1991) 16mm, color, sound., 8 mins

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Lilting Toward Chaos

(1990) 16mm, color, sound., 21 mins

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Winterwheat

(1989) 16mm, color, sound, 8 mins

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