hole or space
Directed by Caroline Koebel, USA, 2006, 3:23, silent, color/b+w, collage film, available on digital video and 16mm

Pricks, gaps, dots, openings, hole or space takes its cue from contortionists of the early screen in spiraling out from conceptions of the body as whole.

The film uses early cinema and avant-garde classics as its compositional notes: Luis Martinetti, Contortionist (Edison Manufacturing Company, 1894); Crissie Sheridan Serpentine Dance (Edison, 1897); Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger & Dudley Murphy, 1924); An Optical Poem (Oskar Fischinger, 1938); Tarantella (Mary E. Bute & Ted Nemeth, 1940).

Selected Screenings and Exhibitions
• Incursions Into Cosmic Fear solo exhibition at Young Projects, Los Angeles, 2015
• Festival Internazionale del Cinema d’Arte, July 17-25, 2009, Bergamo, Italy
• University of Oklahoma School of Art & Art History, Apr 2, 2009, Norman, OK
• Pantheon International Xperimental Film & Animation Festival 7.0, Nov 15, 2008, Lefkosia, Cyprus
• NewFilmmakers Women Behind the Lens, Nov 11, 2008, curated by Victoria Kereszi, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
• Synthetic Zero, Nov 1, 2008, curated by Mitsu Hadeishi, New York, NY
• Abstracta International Exhibition of Abstract Cinema, Sept 24, 2008, Rome, Italy
• Ladyfest Toronto, Sept 15, 2008, Toronto, Canada
• Mary Magdalene Feast Day, July 22, 2008, curated by MM Serra, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
• The Filmmobile West Coast Tour, a program of the Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) in Los Angeles, CA, July 2008, Youth Arts Collective, Monterey, CA; Community Partnership for Youth, Seaside, CA; Alisal Center for the Arts, Salinas, CA; Stonelake Family Farm, Buck Mountain, CA; Beachside State Park, Florence, OR; Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA; Friendship City Collective, Bellingham, WA; Commercial Drive and Purple Thistle Center, Vancouver, Canada; Punch & Judy Cinema, Eugene, OR; Outdoor Screening, Grass Valley, CA; Outdoor Screening, Lone Pine, CA; CSSA - Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
• Tuff Stuff From the Buff: Experimental, Diary, Activist Film & Video, Apr 18, 2008, co-curated by David Gracon, Julie Perini & Marc Moscato, DIVA Center, Eugene, OR
• FILM LOVE 53/Openings: Music and Experimental Film, Dec 9, 2007, curated by Andy Ditzler and presented by Atlanta Fourth Ward Improvisation Ensemble and Frequent Small Meals, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
• City Film Berlin: Works by Caroline Koebel, Oct 20, 2007, Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
• 21st Century Feminist Film, Oct 11, 2007, Dr. Paula Birnbaum's Women and Art course, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• Moment of Motion: Films by Caroline Koebel, Oct 9, 2007, Artist's Television Access, San Francisco, CA
• 11th Annual MadCat Women's Intl Film Festival, Sept 26, 2007, Program No. 11: So Loud it's Silent, El Rio, San Francisco, C
• Ars Electronica Festival, Sept 7, 2007, presented by Sandra Naumann as part of Lichtmusik #1: Mary Ellen Bute, Institute for Media Archeology, Linz, Austria
• New Forms Festival - Re:Use, Sept 7, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Feminism(s): Film, Video, Politics Symposium, Apr 22, 2007, the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
• EYE AM: Women Behind the Lens, Mar 7, 2007, curated by Victoria Kereszi, Manhattan Neighborhood Network Time Warner #34/ RCN #83 & online at www.mnn.org
• Women’s Caucus for Art International Video Shorts, Feb 18, 2007, juried by Sheryl Mousley, Barnard College, New York, NY
• Shots and Cuts: Films by Caroline Koebel, Jan 18, 2007, curated by Carolyn Tennant, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
• Making Movies, Mar 30, 2006, curated by Terry Cuddy, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY
• The Perpetual Art Machine, online exhibition, site launched Mar 2006
• 10th International Women’s Film Festival, Mar 2, 2006, Market Arcade, Buffalo, NY