About this project
Nous is a hand-processed black & white 16mm film by Maïa Cybelle Carpenter with a lush soundtrack by Jon Leidecker (aka Wobbly, the electronic musician). Shot over a nine-year period in the USA, France and Canada, it looks at how we build relationships and in turn, how relationships build us. It has a unique, bilingual voice-over that is in French and in English.
This Kickstarter campaign is to raise finishing funds to make 16mm titles, transfer the digital sound master to optical sound and make three 16mm prints of the film. Also included in the fundraising goal is insured shipping to and from the film lab in Burbank, CA and film festivals.
The original was shot on hi-contrast black and white 16mm film and transfers to HiDef video do not even begin to do it justice. Once I have final prints, you'll be delighted by the actual 16mm film projection; it's gorgeous!
The work-in-progress has been submitted to a number of international film festivals and art exhibition venues.
I've put together some very cool rewards to thank you for supporting my project. I look forward to sharing my film with each and every one of you when it plays in a theater, museum or art gallery near you!
**Please note that the video is just to show that the film is indeed on film. I shot the video off a work-print of "Nous" **
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In addition to the above reward, a small (approx. 4"x5") black and white photographic print of a film still from "Nous".
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In addition to the two rewards above, a cool, limited edition black t-shirt with the title image from "Nous". This reward is for all you typography and design enthusiasts.
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In addition to the three awards above a limited edition book of still images with the bilingual text from the voice over of the film.
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In addition to the three rewards above, a large (approx. 8"x11") archival pigment photographic print of a film still from "Nous". This is really beautiful and worth framing.
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In addition to the four rewards above, a signed, limited edition, region-free DVD of "Nous" with stereo soundtrack. 16mm film has mono-sound so this DVD will be a nice treat to listen to Jon Leidecker's dynamic soundtrack. Also, 2 tickets to the first SF Bay Area screening of "Nous".
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In addition to the five rewards above, a limited edition, signed and certified BluRay disc of "Nous" with stereo sound. This reward is limited to two people and will be first come, first serve for editions 1 & 2 in a 5-disc edition. Also a one-on-one dinner with me here in San Francisco or next time I'm in NYC.
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Maïa Cybelle Carpenter is a moving-image artist and curator from NY and France. She has called San Francisco home for the past ten years.
Her films and videos have been exhibited internationally including, Ars Electronica Linz, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Pacific Film Archives, Ontario Cinematheque, Anthology Film Archives, Exit Art Gallery NY, Directors Guild of America, The British Film Institute, The Berlinale, The Taiwan Cinematheque, and PBS Television. Her films are included in several private collections in North America and her work is distributed by Canyon Cinema (USA), Colléctif Jeune Cinéma (France) and Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre (Canada).
She has served as a visiting curator for the Pleasure Dome in Toronto, was the Programming Coordinator for MIX NYC at Anthology Film Archives, a curator for SF Cinematheque at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and a programmer for the SF International Film Festival. She was involved for a number of years with Phil Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat in Mt. Forest, Ontario and has completed an artist residency at Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (2005).
She has a BA (1997) in Women’s Studies/Film Theory from Barnard College, Columbia University and has a MFA (2001) in Film from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2006 joined the Board of Canyon Cinema (http://canyoncinema.com/) and is currently the President of the Board. She has been on the Advisory Board of LunaFest (http://www.lunafest.org/) since 2005, whose proceeds go towards the Breast Cancer Fund.
