Scott Stark has made over 85 films and videos, as well as numerous moving image installations, live performances, and photo-collages. He received an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work has shown nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the Film Festival Rotterdam, the Tokyo Image Forum, and many others. His 16mm film Angel Beach was invited into the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and in 2007 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
At MacDowell in 2007, Stark completed a rough cut of his film with the working title Spatial Symmetry. He also began work on his Guggenheim-funded 35mm film project, The Realist. In 2012, he completed a rough cut of The Realist and began work on a new large-scale 35mm film project using hand-printed excerpts from Hollywood movie trailers. Stark’s one-person program of recent films and videos at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, which will include a live expanded cinema performance, opens in November 2024.
During his 2017 residency, Stark began initial work on a feature-length experimental film entitled Love and the Epiphanists. In 2024, he completed a rough cut of a new video piece, working title Privilege, comprised of flickering stereo photographs from a lost family archive. He also continued work on Love and the Epiphanists.
