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Julie Anne Buck
Born (1974-12-09) December 9, 1974 (age 47)
NationalityAmerican
Education Columbia University
Known forfilm production, collage, photography
Website juliebuck.com

Julie Anne Buck (born December 9, 1974) is an American film producer, collage artist, photographer, experimental filmmaker, and film archivist. [1]

Life

Buck studied at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. After graduating, she became the manager for the Harvard Film Archive at Harvard University. While sorting and preserving films in the Archive's collection, she and her friend and co-archivist Karin Segal became interested in the images of women (known as "China girls") which often appear on the leaders of older films. Buck and Segal began the long process of digitally cleaning, restoring and printing these enigmatic images for an art exhibit titled "Girls On Film," a visual tribute to the many anonymous women who worked in the film industry. [2] [3]

At the same time, Buck began to experiment with collage. Her first large-format collage, Black-Haired Girl: Karin, depicted Segal, with a challenging stare, raising a glass of orange juice at the viewer. Buck has created three collage series to date—"Black-Haired Girls," "Heads" and "Blank Slate"—and has also completed two commissioned works. In college, Buck received a 1950 Rolleiflex camera that had been owned by her great-grandfather and began using it to take pictures. "Self-Centered," a series of black-and-white photographs of herself wearing various articles of clothing in deliberately staged surroundings, was the result. [4]

Buck later decided to pursue her interests in narrative filmmaking. She graduated from Columbia University's film school in 2011 with an emphasis in film production. [5]

Works

Film production

Full-length films (producer)
Short films (producer)

Other creative work

Buck's collage work tends to traverse the fine line between purely visually representative art and abstract depictions of the personality traits of her subjects. Her black-and-white photograph series, "Self-Centered," is reminiscent of the work of Cindy Sherman, reflecting both Buck's sense of humor and her keen interest in classic film. The black-and-white and color prints of the "Girls On Film" series are both familiar and enigmatic; they are based on the anonymous China Girls that used to appear in the leaders of film reels. [22]

Buck's work has been exhibited in galleries in Columbus, Ohio; Boston; Cambridge and New York City. [23]

Collage series
Photograph series
Books

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References

  1. Gewertz, Ken. The proletariat rises up at the Carpenter Center Archived 2006-09-04 at the Wayback Machine , Harvard University Gazette, July 18, 2002.
  2. Press release for "Girls on Film" at the Sert Gallery, Harvard Archived 2006-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Girls on Film" article from the Harvard Gazette Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Selections from the Self-Centered series Archived 2017-03-05 at the Wayback Machine at juliebuck.com
  5. Julie Buck at LinkedIn
  6. Devoured at IMDb
  7. Child of God at IMDb
  8. Field of Lost Shoes at IMDb
  9. Druid Peak at IMDb
  10. Anesthesia at IMDb
  11. Black Dog, Red Dog at IMDb
  12. Trouble at IMDb
  13. Ben at IMDb
  14. This Little Light at IMDb
  15. About the Filmmakers, loopplanes.com
  16. Terrebonne at IMDb
  17. Salar entry at Columbia University Film Festival website
  18. Alger, Alger entry at Columbia University Film Festival website
  19. Silent Night entry at Columbia University Film Festival website
  20. Temma at IMDb
  21. Periods. at IMDb
  22. "Girls On Film" -- Artists' Installation Inspired by Restored Vintage Film to be Presented at Harvard's Sert Gallery July 16 - September 18, 2005 Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , Harvard Art Museums press release, 8 July 2005.
  23. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-23. Retrieved 2010-09-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  24. Finite Sets page at Preacher's Biscuit Books website