nick karpinski

inspirations

a painter stands in front of a canvas
a scroll in front of a black background
a camera operator films a person reading a script

through my artwork, i tend to enjoy mixing media, like narrative film footage, documentary film footage, archival film footage, photography, and animation. i also tend to watch a lot of things and read a lot of things that inspire me to approach my work in an interdisciplinary fashion, just by nature of the consumption. not necessarily by the content of the work i'm consuming. so! below, you'll see some stuff i'm in to these days.

films: perfect film by ken jacobs, out-takes from the life of a happy man by jonas mekas, fainting spells by sky hopinka, fake fruit factory by chick strand, bloody nose, empty pockets by bill ross and turner ross, taste of cherry by abbas kiarostami, inland empire by david lynch, dead man by jim jarmusch, wings of desire by wim wenders, die my love by lynne ramsay, nightshift by robina rose, happy together by wong kar-wai, sorry, baby by eva victor, out of the blue by dennis hopper...

literature: so long, see you tomorrow by william maxwell, on the calculation of volume by solvej balle, the coin by yasmin zaher, the wind-up bird chronicle by haruki murakami, stoner by john williams, second place by rachel cusk, the details by ia genberg, alphabetical diaries by sheila heti...