Janis Crystal Lipzin
Janis Crystal Lipzin, (born Colorado Springs, 1945) is an American artist working with film, photography, video, audio, multi-media installations, and media performance.
Biography
Lipzin studied painting and photography at Ohio University and New York University, and received her MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. She taught Film and Interdisciplinary studies at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1978 to 2009, where she served as Chair of the Film Department, and before that directed the Film/Photo Program at Antioch College. Her film and photo works have been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Centre Pompidou, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Kunstmuseum Bern. She has been awarded three Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, purchase awards from the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Rene di Rosa Foundation, and Kramlich Collection. Her films and videos are distributed internationally. In 2014 she received a Preservation grant to restore her video Franz Liszt from the Bay Area Video Coalition/National Endowment for the Arts, and an artist grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. She founded and directed EYE MUSIC, a microcinema that produced media events at 80 Langton Street and the Exploratorium in San Francisco and internationally.
Selected filmography
- Flapping Things Super 8mm, 10 minutes, color, silent (1974)
- Buffalofilm Super 8mm, 11 minutes, color, silent (1974)
- LA Carwash 16mm, 8 1/2 minutes, color, sound (1975)
- Periodic Vibrations in an Elastic Medium 16mm, 16 minutes, color, silent (1976)
- The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar 16mm, 12 minutes, color, sound (1976)
- Visible Inventory Six: Motel Dissolve 16mm, 15 minutes, color, sound (1978)
- Bladderwort Document Super 8mm, 12 minutes, color, silent (1978)
- Visible Inventory Nine: Pattern of Events 16mm, 12 minutes, color, sound (1981)
- Government Property Super 8mm, 10 minutes, color, sound (1981)
- Trepanations Super 8mm, 20 minutes, color, sound (1983)
- Right Eye/Left Eye Super 8mm, 6 minutes, color, sound (1984)
- Other Reckless Things 16mm, 20 minutes, color, sound (1984)
- Seasonal Forces Super 8mm, 44 minutes, color and black & white, sound (1996)
- Threnody digital video, 11 minutes, color, sound (2003)
- Cracks Between the Stones Super 8mm on video, 11 minutes, color, sound (2004)
- De Luce 1: Vegetare Super 8mm on video, 5 minutes, color, sound (2009)
- Micro-Celluloid Incidents in Four Santas Super 8mm on video, 10 minutes, color,sound (2012)
- Temporal Vision Starflex Photographs in a time-based installation projection, variable duration loops, color, silent (2012)
- De Luce 2: Architectura Super 8mm on video, 8.5 minutes, color, sound (2013)
- Found & Lost regular 8mm on video, color, sound (2014) with Lisa Mezzacappa (music)
