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[koshanno]

A Series of Kinetic Sets Tell A Story 

A short film about immigration, love, and World War II

2011 Toronto International Film & Video Awards: Winner, Best Experimental

Official Selection 2012 Portland Oregon Women's Film Festival

Official Selection 2012 Ann Arbor Film Festival

Official Selection 2012 Detroit Windsor International Film Festival

Official Selection 2013 Main,Rockland Shorts: An International Short Film Series

Produced, Edited and Directed by Shannon Kohlitz

Music Compostion: William Stanton

Cinematography: Jacques Merseau

Lighting: Jeff Alder

Sound Mixing: Rishi Daftuar

[koshanno]

Here's something I've been working on for more than a year.  Inspired by my previous project, the hand crafted globe that also serves as a pin cushion, I created a map of the U.S. and pins to highlight where I and my boyfriend have traveled to.

I cut up old sweaters to create the individual states, sewed them together to construct the continental U.S. and backed it with a recycled cork-board. I gave Alaska and Hawaii their own separate boards. I originally planned to have Alaska and Hawaii their correct sizes as relative to the continental U.S. but quickly discovered that Alaska is HUGE.  It would have required a frame nearly as big as the U.S.  As for Hawaii, it would have been miniscule.

I then had them all professionally framed.  They are hanging on my wall in their geographically correct positions with Alaska high and left and Hawaii low left of the continental U.S.  (I couldn't get a photo of their arrangement because I couldn't back up far enough to capture it all.)

The pins are map pins but I wanted the spheres on the end to be larger so I added clay balls on the ends and painted them.  Gold represents where I have been, brown for where Jason has been and red is for where we have been together.  The strings are road trips I/we have taken.

I think my next map project will be to do Australia (Jason is from Australia).  That might be a bit easier considering Australia has 5 states and 2 territories compared to the 50 states :)

[koshanno]

The First

So I decided to join the tumbles here.  This is what happens when all your friends are wicked talented and have tumblrs.. hmmm I'm seeing a correlation here.. I think I will make a tumblr too...  Anyway, I'm not looking for tons of followers or internet fame, but rather thought that this was a convenient place to display my art that gets so little attention beyond the realms of the people I force it upon (my family and friends.)  

I make videos and animations for my livelihood (vimeo.com/shannonkohlitz) but here you'll find more 2D work, crafts, process photos, and the occasional film thats destined for film festivals.  

And once again, I curse my talented friends.  How dare they be so inspiring?  Now I have the tumbles too.