chandler pippin

what do you see when you look in the mirror? is that really you? made with two camcorder feedback loops, a broken mirror, and a dirty video mixer.

ride the wave

A film made with needles and ink. My first foray into serious experimental filmmaking as part of my Experimental Film course at MSU, lovingly hand-poked on clear and black 16mm leader.

go against the grain

Made as part of my Experimental Film class at MSU. Everyone in the class had the opportunity to shoot some 16mm film on a Bolex camera. While most of the footage turned out great, there was a significant portion of black, unexposed film in the final scan. These portions stood out to me, almost like a blank canvas waiting to be painted on. Digital editing became my brush, and some beautiful imagery arose from the “waste” of film.

i've become fascinated with video. in our digital age, analog feels like a vacation. a retreat from constant feeds and timelines.

what do you see when you look in the mirror? is that really you? made with two camcorder feedback loops, a broken mirror, and a dirty video mixer.

ride the wave

A film made with needles and ink. My first foray into serious experimental filmmaking as part of my Experimental Film course at MSU, lovingly hand-poked on clear and black 16mm leader.

go against the grain

Made as part of my Experimental Film class at MSU. Everyone in the class had the opportunity to shoot some 16mm film on a Bolex camera. While most of the footage turned out great, there was a significant portion of black, unexposed film in the final scan. These portions stood out to me, almost like a blank canvas waiting to be painted on. Digital editing became my brush, and some beautiful imagery arose from the “waste” of film.

i've become fascinated with video. in our digital age, analog feels like a vacation. a retreat from constant feeds and timelines.

a short visual piece made with a camera feedback loop and a dirty video mixer

a short visual piece made with two camera feedback loops and a dirty video mixer

from my visual album for Mellowgrand

Track 2 from the visual album for Mellowgrand.

secret meeting...

from my visual album for Mellowgrand

a piece made concerning my anxieties about the future.

Just a lake of blood for all the world to see.

the opening seg from APHEX TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WAVE WITH ME

a short visual piece made with two camera feedback loops and a dirty video mixer

my segment from POINT {br}, a re edit of Point Break by video editors and artists of marginalized genders.

from my visual album for Mellowgrand

a short visual piece made with two camera feedback loops and a dirty video mixer

can you bear it?

a short visual piece made with two camera feedback loops and a dirty video mixer

‘sir’ was made after discovering more about my gender identity. By turning a “male” gaze towards myself, I explore my relationship with masculinity and how that affects how I am perceived in the world. The voices of my family reflect a struggle with the idea of coming out to those who I love as well as those around me, as I find some sense of safety in my perceived maleness despite the discomfort and internal strife it may cause.

A study of a particular intersection and the lights surrounding it. An in-camera 16mm film shot with a Bolex. The camera was not moved from its initial position after it was set up, with lens changes, pans, and tilts, being used to get different shots.

flashing lights

make that hissin' noise

my seg from Naprika, a remix of Paprika. took a more subtle approach with this one, really letting the VHS and interlacing take over the vibe.

echoes in the empty streets of Misty City.

the inanimate becomes animate.

A young computer repair technician must learn to trust his friend in order to save the world's data.

capturing my movements when i heard the geese cry.

seg 1 from Ma~

segment 13 from TNK_GRL, a movie remix made by 20 artists.

your eyes are so beautiful. i love to watch you look at things. so much of my time spent trying to see what you see. more vhs loop experiments. both VCRs going to a dirty video mixer that's outputting to both CRTs. Original eye visuals made using footage sent to me by my partner while he was abroad, fed through my Edirol V4 mixer with the Lofi-Future T-420 Micro processing the internal feedback.

early experiments with VHS tape loops.

an eight-hour long experimental film/performance art piece in which filmmaker chandler pippin creates their own arbitrary form of service work and films a shift in its entirety.

i can transform you into anything!

video variations on Service with a Smile

what is it that you see within?

On October 22, 2020, I received what might be the worst call I could receive from my mother. A tumor was found in my younger brother’s abdomen. As soon as those words were uttered I was frozen. Numb. This film was made as an attempt to reconcile everything that was felt during that call. The audio is taken from various videos my brothers and I made when we were younger, where it was then heavily distorted and filtered.

A break from my diary series. I visited home for my younger brothers’ graduation, and during my time I captured whatever I could. These are those captured moments edited together chronologically. Come visit my home with me.