Tara Merenda Nelson
Tara Merenda Nelson is a filmmaker, curator, programmer and lecturer working between the conceptual and perceptual realms with small gauge film and digital media. Her films, videos and installations have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art (NY and Miami), Mono No Aware (Brooklyn), The 8Fest (Canada), VideoEx (Switzerland) and the Sydney Underground Film Festival (AUS). She has taught digital media and film production courses at Montserrat, Ithaca College, Cornell University, University of Rochester and SUNY Brockport. Currently she is the Curator of Moving Image Collections at Visual Studies Workshop, where she teaches 16mm film production and oversees a collection of over 9,000 16mm films magnetic media titles. She holds an MFA in Film/Video from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Flying Fish (2012)
“A portrait of my sister, pregnant.” (written by Tara Merenda Nelson) (more)
“A portrait of my sister, pregnant.” (written by Tara Merenda Nelson) (more)
43 street Treelapse (2009)
“The first house I bought was on 43rd Street in Pittsburgh. In this silent Super 8 triptych-projection, I documented the facade of each house on 43rd Street on 36 frames of film (center screen), while the oldest tree on the street﹘which was in my backyard﹘is shown ... (more)
“The first house I bought was on 43rd Street in Pittsburgh. In this silent Super 8 triptych-projection, I documented the facade of each house on 43rd Street on 36 frames of film (center screen), while the oldest tree on the street﹘which was in my backyard﹘is shown ... (more)
Snow (2010)
“Following a difficult surgery, I spent several days in the hospital and several weeks on narcotic painkillers. Snow is a chronicle of my experience struggling to understand what had happened to me and how my life had changed unexpectedly. Most of the footage was ... (more)
“Following a difficult surgery, I spent several days in the hospital and several weeks on narcotic painkillers. Snow is a chronicle of my experience struggling to understand what had happened to me and how my life had changed unexpectedly. Most of the footage was ... (more)
Last Day of Capricorn (2013)
“A self-portrait on my 38th birthday, which I spent alone in a stranger’s apartment. I searched for messages from the pictures on the walls. I sat in every chair. Anne died and I was getting older. Nothing else happens. Dedicated to Anne Charlotte Robertson.” ... (more)
“A self-portrait on my 38th birthday, which I spent alone in a stranger’s apartment. I searched for messages from the pictures on the walls. I sat in every chair. Anne died and I was getting older. Nothing else happens. Dedicated to Anne Charlotte Robertson.” ... (more)
A Pattern Language (2010)
Featuring the Kugel Gips house in Wellfleet, MA, designed in 1970 by Cape Cod architect Charles Zehnder and restored by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust in 2009. This film was made during an artists' residency I had there in March 2010. The title is taken from the ... (more)
Featuring the Kugel Gips house in Wellfleet, MA, designed in 1970 by Cape Cod architect Charles Zehnder and restored by the Cape Cod Modern House Trust in 2009. This film was made during an artists' residency I had there in March 2010. The title is taken from the ... (more)
MARATHON (2010)
The Boston Marathon as seen through the eyes of a non-runner. (more)
The Boston Marathon as seen through the eyes of a non-runner. (more)
Fruit Hospital, Episode 1 (2014)
Part 1 in the psychedelic Sci-Fi Soap Opera, Fruit Hospital (more)
Part 1 in the psychedelic Sci-Fi Soap Opera, Fruit Hospital (more)
Fruit Hospital, Episode 2 (2014)
Doctor Wormhole suspects sinister simian, Harry Mann, of mishandling his favorite fruits. Hysterical Harry is comforted by nice Nurse Corndog, who suggests a more sensitive surgeon may have what it takes to put the curves back in his banana. (more)
Doctor Wormhole suspects sinister simian, Harry Mann, of mishandling his favorite fruits. Hysterical Harry is comforted by nice Nurse Corndog, who suggests a more sensitive surgeon may have what it takes to put the curves back in his banana. (more)
In China (2012)
A travel memoir on two projectors: one reel is black and white, the other color. The films are superimposed at the time of projection, and edited together during a live performance in which I use chinese fans as external shutters. By blocking the light of one ... (more)
A travel memoir on two projectors: one reel is black and white, the other color. The films are superimposed at the time of projection, and edited together during a live performance in which I use chinese fans as external shutters. By blocking the light of one ... (more)
Falling (2010)
A study in motion, perception, imagination and emotion, this film is ultimately a tribute to classic German cinema. It was shot with a macro lens in slow motion (64 fps) and is projected alternating between 18 and 5 frames per second throughout the piece. (more)
A study in motion, perception, imagination and emotion, this film is ultimately a tribute to classic German cinema. It was shot with a macro lens in slow motion (64 fps) and is projected alternating between 18 and 5 frames per second throughout the piece. (more)