Eric Waldemar's Page

I've been making movies for close to 25 years, since Stan Brakhage showed me how to use a splicer. Many are entirely non-pictorial visual music, many aren't. Little of it's available online, because generally, what's good about my work is destroyed by web compression. But, I finally have something up. Harry Smith was my other key mentor/friend, and perhaps my most treasured complement was when he spent 20 minutes looking at strips of painted 16mm film in his hands, then looked at me incredulously: "Can you do this at will?" I work in several media, and upcoming work makes complex, strobing, spatially ambiguous worlds from a series of related etchings and monoprints. This work seems hopeless to show on the web, I'm afraid. Perhaps I can post some material to download and watch offline. Anyway, just a hello, since I finally posted a little piece after being a silent member for a long time. If you're in Denver, that's where I am, too. Upcoming shows at my site.. http://www.ericwaldemar.com, but I'll try to post things here, too. I have a 1 1/2 year old daughter, which explains why I dropped off the sociable map for a long time. And, I'm a cave-dwelling hermit by temperament.