Jodie Mack's films are some of the most fascinating experiments in animation today. Bringing together abstract colors and found objects, patterns of movement and a sense of time and loss, Mack's films burst with ideas and delights as they make us see the familiar world anew. This program of films features works from across her career. In Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2013), rapid-fire florals and morning bird songs bridge interior and exterior, design and nature. The three films in her Wasteland series recycle lifeless objects (frozen flowers, circuit boards) into living, breathing stop-motion. Hoarders without Borders (2018) brings to life an offbeat mineral collection. The program also includes her latest film, M.U.S.H. Q&A with Jodie Mack moderated by Daniel Morgan (CMS). (Jodie Mack, USA, 2013-2022, 16mm, 40 min.) 

Jodie Mack is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Jeonju International Film Festival, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival, Anthology Film Archives, BFI London Film Festival, Harvard Film Archive, National Gallery of Art, REDCAT, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Cinema Scope, The New York Times, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College.