My Mirrored Hope
REVIEWS
"Dear Beryl—I am so moved by your films, I wish I could really write. It is not what people say when the lights go on, it’s what we feel in the darkness with these images and later in memory. I am moved by your loneliness when you walk around this dream we call the city, it is so poignant—and your solitude and passion. I can imagine when you splice and give sequence to this inner world. I want you to know that I feel this.
Ever, "
Phillip Guston
"Crista Grauer’s motorized boxes speak to the tradition of German Expressionism, namely painter George Grosz, and photo montage artist John Heartfield, both of whom explicitly addressed the horrors of war."
The Brecht Forum
"Sokoloff’s films can be viewed in the experimental tradition with links to Bruce Conner, Stan VanderBeek, and Francis Thompson, but distinct from those artists in terms of cinematic style and strategy. His films are distinguished for their beautiful pictorial quality and dynamic editing. His cinematography exhibits a flair for vividly capturing the tactile feel of objects. His montage style involves radical spatial and temporal displacements, disrupting the presentation of sequences of images found in classic narrative or documentary films, and his city of New York, that was his inspiration and muse."
Jon Gartenberg