Lauren Marie Dake
MFA ’25 Film/Video
Split Horizon is an optically printed 16mm impressionistic handmade film. Using found home movies and travel films from the 1960’s, I respond to the material through collage, painting, and abstraction directly onto film, aiming to create a psychological traversal across a vast unknown. Landscape acts as a basis for exploration, and characters emerge and descend, representing the self or the other. The onscreen horizon is often literally split; the characters and places become a mirror for one another, meditating on our own ability to contain multiple versions of self, identity, and internal narratives about our own stories, paths and histories.
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Lauren Marie Dake is an experimental filmmaker from Seattle. Her practice centers on notions of escape, chaos, the uncanny, and the ethereal. She is fascinated with the worldbuilding potential of handmade and cameraless cinema and experiments with direct animation onto 16mm films, where she engages in an ongoing attempt to create new realities within the dimension of the frame. Lauren’s short films have recently screened at the Grrl Haus Cinema Best of 2024 Festival in Cambridge,MA, the MicroActs Artist Film Screenings in London, the International Avant-Garde Film Festival in New York, and the Boston Short Film Festival.
