Bob Barancik
Bob Barancik, an award-winning experimental video producer, digital printmaker, and painter, is the founder and director of Rock Ledge Studios.
Located on Long Island, Maine, Rock Ledge Studios offers highly creative individuals from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to disconnect from the distractions of everyday life and to reconnect with nature, their personal creativity, and other innovative people.
Barancik's work in visual communications has won more than 40 international, national, and regional awards. He has also received recognition from the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Leadership, Inc. for his contributions to civic life in Philadelphia. He has served as an advisor to the Wachman Fund for International Education, the Middle East Council of Philadelphia, and the Center for Literacy.
Barancik's mixed-media collages and prints have exhibited at many major institutions. These include the Frye Museum (Seattle), the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the New Jersey State Museum, the Rare Book and Print Room of the New York Public Library, the Van Pelt Library of the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.
Barancik's award-winning videos feature his digital prints and photography. These digital videos screened at the Berkeley Video and Film Festival, the JVC Tokyo Video Festival, the Washington D.C. Independent Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Short Festival, the Ignite! Festival in New York City, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, the Columbus International Film and Video Festival, the Philadelphia International Film Festival, the Toronto Jewish Film Festival, the Festival International du Film Independant (Brussels), the Black Maria Film Festival, the Canadian International Annual Film Festival, the Maine International Film Festival, and the Maine Filmmakers' Forum.
Barancik holds an M.A. in Education from Stanford University. He did advanced study in Organizational Development at the William Alanson White Institute in New York City and in Creative Art Therapies at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. His undergraduate work includes a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Barancik has taught or lectured at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Drexel University, Moore College of Art, Long Island University, and University of California at Berkeley.
Director Statement
"By birth and temperament, I am a midwesterner — a political moderate and pragmatist. I am drawn to the sane center; more interested in what is sensible and decent than in extreme political or religious theories.
"It was surprising to me that I would produce such a raw and disturbing video like "Torn Asunder". But what the ideologues in the Bush administration and cynical corporate cronies have done to my beloved country is unbearable.
"Please note that the soundtrack does not contain any mention of the president or his minions, or any obscene language. The real obscenity is this administration."
- Bob Barancik
