Paul Clipson

Mayrah is a film made from a time last summer while in Sidney, Brisbane and Melbourne. Australia was such an intense flurry of impressions, movements and environments, that the film ...

A nervous portrait of a Zagreb train station filmed from the tracks. The imminent impact leads to seeing stars. Super 8mm film with music by Barn Owl.

Music By Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Super 8mm Film By Paul Clipson.

Director Paul Clipson's 16mm black-and-white video for "Come On" by Ilyas Ahmed uses double exposure to lay street lights over sidewalks, make leaves look as if they were printed on ...

Water, fire and oil mix into an anxious premonition read across the surface of an eye, a pond and an expressway. Filmed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. Music by Alex Cobb ...

Clipson, like some reckless traveller driven by a Mabusian force, takes us on a journey, hypnotically guiding us through a realm of dreams that seems to consist solely of light, shapes ...

Paul Clipson puts us on the beach, just before fall, when summer is still present—a time we have a hard time realizing is still here because we know what comes next.

Tracking shots of streets, alleys, walls, fences, and city landscapes are superimposed on top of each other moving in opposite directions - a moving collage of spaces passing themselves by.

An attempt through improvised in-camera multiple exposure, to capture a heightened, altered state, whether it be anxiety attack, hallucination or vision of madness. Shot in New York and ...

A film by Paul Clipson.

'As for Paul’s case, what fascinated him through his camera—moving through space, often with a macro lens and the rack focus, the focus is shifting non-stop as his gaze moves along—his ...

Music by Jefre-Cantu Ledesma. Film by Paul Clipson with Trevor Montgomery.

Short experimental film by Paul Clipson

A film by Paul Clipson.

The Crystal Text is a fleeting, poetic impression of the the fragmented emotional world of Young Moon's music. Amazingly, all of the visual effects are created within the camera, rather ...

Taped live at Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, CA

"Ephemeris" (2011) is a conversation of image and sound, between filmmaker Paul Clipson and electronic musician Aki Onda, rendered as if from a fragmented journey of landscapes and ...

Experimental short film by Paul Clipson

"Light from the Mesa" from Barn Owl's album Ancestral Star.

An exploration of movement, woven into layers of time, and photographed in natural and nocturnal urban spaces, ambiguous within a confluence of lights, colors and darkness. Sound by ...

A hallucinatory synthesis of nightscapes, focusing on colors, textures, and forms of light, viewed and traversed in several rhythmic movements. Using multiple exposures of neon signs, ...

Latest installment from the on-going collaboration between filmmaker Paul Clipson & musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Paul's Super8 films, shot entirely in New York City, channel the ...

Automatic-writing on film, using double exposures, macro imagery, dissolves, and in-camera editing to create a dream collage of Los Angeles, from the perspective of a plane and an ...

Propulsive in-camera editing sends this nature collage deep into the embraces of dandelions.