Goldies.

"For close to a decade, Melinda Stone (more) has been taking film to new places." Literally. In an intriguing piece for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Johnny Ray Huston traces Stone's development from her first outdoor projection on a mountainside in southern California to her most recent, A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005, juxtaposing an anonymous century-old cinematic record of San Francisco's main thoroughfare with her own.

Stone is one of two recipients of this year's Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Awards (Goldies) in the film category. Cheryl Eddy tells the story behind the other, the Edinburgh Castle Film Night: "Though the films created for the shows are incredibly varied - from [David] Enos's stop-motion fables to [Cathy] Begien's deeply personal explorations - there's a certain consistency to the work. Moe sums up the overall vibe with this fitting phrase: 'eclectic unity.'"

Posted by dwhudson at November 12, 2005 3:58 AM