
Directing
Through DIY practices such as hand-processing, optical printing, material manipulations, and sleight-of-hand techniques, Laitala references the history of early cinema and light shows while pushing the medium into new, critical, and highly sensory territory. Her work investigates shifting relationships with the natural world and the artifacts we introduce into it, and this program puts the existential crises of our present into conversation with the unlikely magic of motion picture technology.

Fire Fly EYE
2020

Figments in Film, Number One
2019

Eye of the Maelstrom
2019

Knee Jerk
2018

The City Luminous: Spectacle of Light
2015

9 Lives Measured in Mercury
2013

Chromatic Cocktail 180 Proof
2011

Pin-up in 3D
2009

Chromatic Cocktail Extra Fizzy
2009

Chromatic Frenzy
2009

Terra Firma
2005

Out of the Ether
20049.0

Experiments in Terror
20035.0

Hallowed
2002

The Adventure Parade
2000

Secure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade
1997

Retrospectroscope
1997