2015 Bridges Conference Short Movie Festival
Julie Simon
Filmmakers
Statement
In many ways, I feel I’ve rejected elements of my formal training in photography and film. I spend a lot of time teaching the rules in both media. Yet, I pay very little attention to any of them when creating my own work. I’ve adapted a non-representational style where elements of color, texture, and form are abstracted and woven together. While many of the photographic/video layers begin as recognizable objects, these source images are rarely discernible in the end. My work is intended to evoke fleeting impressions that viewers can interpret, and reinterpret, for themselves. Julie Simon has been working with lens-based media for more than 30 years. She has been exhibited on television, film festivals, in art galleries/museums and on the web winning a number of prestigious awards for a wide range of media projects. She is on the faculty and directs the B.A. degree in Digital Communication at the University of Baltimore.