COURTNEY HOSKINS
Who knew such mysterious and terrifying creatures lurked deep within the unfathomable world of your kitchen cupboard. No, that wasn't a rhetorical question, and the answer is Courtney Hoskins. Her startling and surreal photographs look like scenes from science fiction movies, or space probe satellite images from NASA, yet the objects she uses in her work were found around the house, heated to temperatures equal to that of the surface of a strike-anywhere match and photographed through a polarizing filter.
Hoskins taps into an aleatoric universe through the use of one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet: her mind, and has mastered the software application used by every creative genius that ever lived: Imagination. Many people have put cellophane and plastic cutlery in a toaster oven, but all they did was ruin their dinner and set off the fire alarm. When Courtney Hoskins does it, aleatoric art is served.
Over the years, I have worn many hats: writer, director, animator, actor, FX artist, web developer, makeup counter saleswoman, amateur astronomer, barista, underwater explorer… All of these things somehow fall under general heading of “filmmaker.”
I started down the filmmaking road at a young age, but made my first “real” movie at 21. At that time, I was living in New York and influenced by friend and mentor Stan Brakhage. Most of my films were of the “experimental” genre, capturing polarized light and astronomical subjects in a sort of abstract expressionist way.
http://courtneyhoskins.com
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Kokopellic and Romulus
36X36 Inkjet on aluminum panel, 1" aluminum standoff.
ENOUGH
CLING CLUNG
THE SHAMAN
The Giving Tree
Untitled #8
Singularity 2
Untitled #6
From "The Counter Girl Trilogy: Anti-Rides"
From "Munkphilm"
From "Munkphilm"
From "The Counter Girl Trilogy: Anti-Rides"
Gossamer
From "The Counter Girl Trilogy: Gift With Purchase"
From "The Counter Girl Trilogy: Snake Oil"
The World is Broken
Halflife
From "The Galilean Satellites: Europa"
From "The Galilean Satellites: Europa"
From "The Galilean Satellites: Europa"
From "The Galilean Satellites: Europa"
