DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.
A slug climbs small mountains at the peak of Mount Greylock (3,489 ft).
As a winter storm approaches the shallow water crystallizes, ice builds up along the edges of a stream, and the first snowflakes of the storm layer over the newly formed ice. The following morning a soft light approaches through the snow covered forest.
A close look at flowers and pollinators on a sunny summer morning.
In the early 1900s commercial loggers cut down an old growth spruce tree growing on a small island surrounded by tide pools on the coast of Maine. Out of the trunk of this ancient tree grew two new trees, side by side.
Sunlight in a winter forest.
Observations on one of the hottest days of the year
A squatter spends his days with his dog in a decrepit, abandoned house until a discovery entices him out.
Clouds forming and moving through the summer sky.
A golden sunrise brings light to the foggy hills and meadows of late summer.
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.
A short film featuring a coastal forest and the rocky coastline of downeast Maine.
Shot on 16mm film in New York and composed in Berlin, the work explores polarizing themes of the metropolis. Audibly and visually, the viewer is put in a flicker between serenity and intensity; harrowing ambience cut with sharp beeps, vulnerable steps mashed in high velocity.
A study of the seashore in mid-coast Maine.
Mountain wildflowers in a dense fog.
As the day comes to an end deer graze on a hillside, wild turkeys pass through a grassy field, and the full moon rises.
A short film shot on 16mm about memory, grieving, and siblinghood.
Wind blows through the snow covered hills after a winter snow storm.
Morning dew in summer fields and meadows.