phantoms (2024)
Scott Northrup
phantoms, Scott Northrup, USA, Super 8mm > digital, 3.5 min, 2024
A modern materialist film about filmmaking and dying trees, edited in-camera and hand-processed in a beer bath.
Streaming Details
This film is available to stream globally.
Program Partners
This film is co-presented with College for Creative Studies and Arts Council Windsor and Region.
Image credits: all artworks, portraits, and stills courtesy of the artist © Scott Northrup.
About the artist
Scott Northrup (USA) is an artist, filmmaker, writer, curator, and educator born in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1969. His work across media explores questions of love, lust, loss, and desire, especially the unspoken, unsure, and ephemeral. He received a BFA in Studio Art from the College for Creative Studies (1992) and an MA in Media Studies from The New School (2003). He has completed more than 50 moving image artworks since 1989, which have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries including The Museum of Modern Art, Art Basel Miami, White Columns, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Mothlight Microcinema, Printed Matter, Detroit Artists Market, and Media City Film Festival. He has undertaken residencies at the Museum of Loss and Renewal, Arteles Creative Center, and AICAD/New York Studio Residency Program. His own writing, and writing about his practice, has appeared in Hyperallergic, Krass Journal, DittoDitto, New Art Examiner, Detroit Art Review, and elsewhere. He is professor and chair of the Film, Photography, and Interdisciplinary Art + Design programs at College for Creative Studies in Detroit. He lives and works in Dearborn, Detroit, and Hamtramck, Michigan.