Isaac King, b. 2001
Isaac King is a visual media artist and filmmaker born and raised in South Carolina. His practice centers around handmade cinema, recycled cinema, and amateur filmmaking and prominently utilizes celluloid film (super 8, 16mm, 35mm), taking full advantage of its materiality. His work and research have included and focused on matters of representation and socio-ecological metamorphosis, particularly in the United States South.
Coming from an experimental film background, Isaac examines culture through an abstract lens with hopes that this abstraction energizes and promotes a desire to learn and a will to reach across cultural differences. His approach to visual anthropology comes with an understanding of the heterogeneity of cultural contexts and that for insights to be gleaned earnestly, the singularity of the interlocutor’s perception must be taken into account. He questions documentary image use as an easy means of calling up a static past and instead opts for a filmmaking strategy that trusts the intermittence of life. Through alternative photochemical processes, direct animation, and asynchronous ethnography, he continues reexamining, recontextualizing, and re-presenting Southernness.
Isaac holds a BFA in Film and Television from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions and features in private collections across the Southern United States.
