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Archive for June, 2011

What I did during the war: Parts 1-6 (2008–2011)

Posted in Experimental film, Experimental video, Multimedia, Thinking, Watching on June 11, 2011 | 1 Comment »

This ongoing series, currently made up of six short videos fit for the twenty-first century and all its attendant anxieties of vigilance and control.

It is a composite world, where time, place and premonitions collapse and context continually shifts. Overtones of hysteria and self-identification reproduced from memories on digital cards. It does not directly hold a single narrative instead opting to explore multiple notions of cinema.

Re-presented and estranged histories, memories and meanings conflate those stereotyped by popular culture blurring the boundary between the imaginary and the real. The societal impulse that draws us to the subtle, intimate and extremely personal darker side of life becomes historical but arguably unauthenticated.

What I did during the war

Part 1: Fear

Part 2: Money

Part 3: Sex

Part 4: Art

Part 5: Blood chit

Part 6: Dreaming (not sleeping)

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Program text: Currents 2011 – June 10-19

Posted in Exhibitions, Experimental film, Experimental video, Making, Thinking on June 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I have three works in Currents 2011. Here is a short text that I contributed to the program:

In my time based work I continue to explore the artificiality of the image adding the layering of text, voice and sound. I have continued to approach the work from a DIY, hand crafted perspective. I work the short format because I like the bony “only what is essential” feel. I read that Italo Calvino described Fellini’s work as “forcing of the photographic image in a direction that carries it from an image of caricature toward that of the visionary”. I like that idea.

I was introduced by a colleague at work to people who were writing poetry from snippets of Google search results. ‘Nightlight’ started as one of these “Poegles” which was recorded and then collaged with images. ‘An American tragedy’ was assembled in much the same way, only in this case using text from the Dreiser novel. ‘Someone to rob’ is like a cheap video game putting the viewer in the position to decide who it will be. Another virtual petty theft.

All of the these pieces are about choice. Falling from grace. The potential for redemption, forgiveness. Sometimes you are redeemed, sometimes you go to hell. These three films are moments where those decisions are made.

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