Mask, October 31, 2024
Director: JANET KUSMIERSKI
United States, 2024, 12 min
Festival Year:2025
Category:Experimental
Genres:Halloween, Time-lapse, Animation, Costumes, Masks
Crew:Writer: JANET KUSMIERSKI. Producer: JANET KUSMIERSKI. Music: CALDER SINGER.
Email:janetkus@me.com
Synopsis
“Mask” was screened as a short in the "Ciné Pluto” Halloween Program at Hauser & Wirth, NYC, October 31, 2024.
The piece is inspired by cultural costumes and "things that go bump in the night”.
The drawings consist of time-lapse/animations sketched in Procreate and then edited in Premiere. The running time is 11:54 minutes.
Musical score is by Calder Singer.
Trailer
About the director
Janet Kusmierski is a digital artist, animator, painter, and sculptor. Digital work can be viewed on Vimeo, https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1040518613. Janet’s paintings and drawings have been exhibited online at ArtFizz, and her NFTs can be found on Foundation as @TootieFrootie.
Her work has been exhibited at Hauser & Wirth; The Elizabeth Foundation; Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NYC; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; The Everson Museum of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY and assorted universities and galleries across the country.
Filmmaker's note
In 2019 I saw David Hockney’s Amsterdam iPad exhibition, it was an epiphany!
Over the years I slowly transitioned from studio painting to digital.
Prior to the Brooklyn 2025 Film Festival I've been working with video projections through translucent fabric.
“Mask” was a five month "learning curve" of experimentation and research.
Happily, my experiment is included in the Experimental Category!