This live jazz trio performance and film projection program celebrates 50 years of the collaboration between local artists Caryn Cline, a filmmaker, and Dan Greenblatt, a jazz musician, real life partners and frequent collaborators.   Dan’s trio, including visiting bassist Ed Fuqua and local pianist John Hansen, will perform a number of tunes while some of Caryn’s films play on the screen.  Caryn often pairs her visuals with jazz soundtracks.  In addition to Dan’s tunes, her soundtracks have been composed by local legend Chuck Metcalf, Dan and Caryn’s son Tatum, New York bassist Alexis Cuadrado, cellist Lori Goldston, and others.  The compositions in this program will work with the films, sometimes replicating the soundtrack that exists with the piece, and sometimes replacing it with a tune drawn from the group’s extensive repertory in the jazz playbook. 

FILMS IN THIS PROGRAM:

Seattle Solstice 16mm print | color | 2:40 | 2008
Mapping a Seattle landscape as the season turns, this film is an optical print of original handmade frames. Featuring hydrangea, geranium, nandina, camillia, oregano, vinca, snapdragon, cyclamen, violet, linden, clematis, linaria, birch bark and daphne. Original soundtrack by Chuck Metcalf.

In the Conservatory 16mm print | color | 5:00 | 2010
On a gray winter day in Seattle, the Volunteer Park Conservatory offers a trip to a different climate: lush, wildly colorful, strange, and beautiful. “In the Conservatory” experimentally captures the essence of the place, through the use of direct animation, ambient sound, and music. Plants from the conservatory’s winter collection were gleaned and pasted onto clear, 16mm film leader, then re-photographed on an optical printer while they were still fresh, resulting in a surprising chance animation. The original soundtrack, a composition by Samuel Barber, was performed by Lucille Goeres and Eliza Garth.

Arachnophilia 16mm to digital | color | 3:20 | 2014
A 16mm camera roll filmed by Caryn in her front yard one day in autumn. The original soundtrack is the song “Stray Cat,” written and performed by Dan Greenblatt.

Lost Winds 16mm to digital | color | 3:00 | 2017
A site-specific botanicollage film from San Clemente, CA, containing both planned and “chance” animation. Original sound design by Caryn and Jon Behrens.

Butterfly Disaster 16mm to digital | color | 6:50 | 2019
“What looks like agricultural success, purging bean and corn fields of milkweed (among other weeds), turns out to be a butterfly disaster.” –Verlyn Klinkenborg. Inspired by Klinkenborg’s writing, using found footage from four different sources, I edited, optically-printed, superimposed, scratched on, bleached and otherwise altered the film to highlight, lament and challenge the monarch butterfly’s dilemma. This piece will play with its original soundtrack by Caryn Cline and Andrés Montaña.

Tangled Up in Blue 16mm to digital | color | 8:10 | 2020
A collaborative film made after a cyanotype-on-16mm-film workshop taught by artist and filmmaker Kate Lain, sponsored by the Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum. Featuring handmade film sequences created by Brenan Chambers, Brenda Burmeister, Caryn Cline, Chris Day, Cindy Stillwell, Devon Damonte, Eileen Roscina, Ellie Kozlowski, Jade Finlinson, Jen Proctor, Jonah Kozlowski, Panteha Abareshi, Paul Siple, Rana San, Ruth Hayes, and Ursula Brookbank. The original music, “All Blues,” performed by the Greenblatt Generations Band: Dan Greenblatt (sax), Tatum Greenblatt (trumpet), and Ed Fuqua (bass) will be replicated here.

Film Tattoo 16mm to digital | color | 3:15 | 2020
A handmade-in-quarantine botanicollage camera roll film: 16mm black emulsion leader, the length of my garden bed, was sprayed with water and scratched between two garden stones. The scratched frames were then filled with plants from my yard and re-photographed on an optical printer using 50D film at 3 frames to 1. Original soundtrack by Barcelona-born, New York-based bassist and composer Alexis Cuadrado.

Alstromeria 16mm to digital | color | 2:15 | created 2007, digitized 2024
My first “botanicollage” film, working with a bouquet of Alstromeria. Original soundtrack: Dan Greenblatt’s “Dolce.”

Phytodrama 16mm to digital | color | 4:40 | 2026
My most recent film. A phytography collaboration with Olympia-based animator and filmmaker Ruth Hayes that included shooting and then double exposing. We were drawn to non-native species around her home outside of Olympia, keeping in mind that while some people consider these plants “weeds,” and “invasives,” with all that those labels imply, these plants are considered medicinal by other groups.