Bio

Josephine Massarella is an independent filmmaker based in Hamilton, Ontario. Her award-winning 16mm films have screened at festivals worldwide, including Canada, USA, India, Europe, England, Japan, Australia, Malasyia, and Korea. Her short films include No End, Light Study, Night Stream, Green Dream, Interference, No5 Reversal and One Woman Waiting. Her formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Film from the University of British Columbia, a graduate certificate in Advanced Film and Television from Sheridan College, and a Master of Arts in Integrated Studies and Cultural Studies from Athabasca University. Josephine also teaches introductory filmmaking and cinema studies.

Works

165708

  • 2020
  • Josephine Massarella

Shot entirely in 16mm black-and-white film using single-frame photography, "165708" employs in-camera techniques and chemical manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal elasticity. Techniques include flicker, time-lapse, light painting, stop motion, tinting, and toning. Combined with cycles of alternating exposed frames, these methods imbue the work with a rhythmic magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images.

165708

Light Study

  • 2015
  • Josephine Massarella

Light Study is a poetic examination of the wetlands, forests, and ecosystems of the Niagara Escarpment. Meticulously filmed over several seasons, it explores the unique landscape of the Bruce Trail using 16mm single frame photography. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light's eternal change.

Light Study