Millsaps College will present Eric Patrick as part of the Southern Circuit tour of independent filmmakers at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, in room 215 of the Ford Academic Complex. Following a screening of his “Ritual Etchings: The Experimental Shorts of Eric Patrick,” Patrick will engage the audience in a discussion of the film and his work as a filmmaker. The movie and discussion are free and open to the public. For directions or more information, contact Austin Wilson at 601-974-1305 or wilsola@millsaps.edu.
Drawing from the past ten years of Patrick’s film career, “Ritualized Etchings” is tied together by the marriage of concept and technique that Patrick achieves in each short film. These films are driven by Patrick’s use of a low-tech shooting style and stop-motion animation, 16mm and 35mm film, time lapse photography and hand edited frames. Of these low-tech methods, Patrick says, “They impose a certain amount of ritual into the process, thereby forcing me to ‘be’ the film for a certain amount of time. The small repetitive acts of creating the frames for [one of his short films] are like saying a rosary or even a form of alchemy.” The result is a collection filled with a variety of eerily beautiful visual effects.
The Southern Circuit Film Series is organized by the Southern Arts Federation in conjunction with the South Carolina Arts Commission. It is funded locally by Millsaps College with the generous support of the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Mississippi Film Office.
