Thousands of years ago, on the site of St. Petersburg there was a sea, now called Litorina Sea - because of the gastropods that lived in the Baltic waters. Granite gradually formed from the shells of ancient mollusks that settled on the bottom of the reservoirs, which over the centuries dressed the Neva in its red and black attire.
People go to work 5/2, have dinner and watch TV in the evening, stare at their phones before bed, quickly get ready in the morning and go to work. And again. And again. Again.
Initially created for a new alternative distribution network, Miss Video 4U, modeled after the 1990's Joanie4Jackie video chain letter, IMAGE BREAKER explores the history of the Big Miss Moviola/Joanie4Jackie series to take viewers further back to the mid 1970s when another, less well known, feminist video exchange took place, International VIDEOLETTERS. Then 27 feminist media groups participated in a two year bi-monthly video exchange. After giving a brief introduction through clips and art work, this less than ten minute video quickly explores 13 other 1970s feminist media that are MISSING / UNKNOWN / UNSHOWN. Spunky and quirky, the work could evolve into a Feminist/Gender and Cinema Studies teaching tool and put some of this germinal feminist work back on the cinema history map.
TEXtrucTURAS (Humanas) is an artistic_instrumental research work with Artificial Intelligence and is part of a research project, in Audiovisual Arts, that tries to transfer expressive and emotional concepts to the screen with moving images, so it deliberately lacks formal, narrative and structural aspects.
“The title itself contains a Buddhist-like koan. Fascinating how breaking ‘apart’ the word brings us into coherence as ‘a part’ of nature. A linguistic mystery visualized, eyes wide open. This must be the footage from the Amazon(?) you mentioned some months ago that you recalibrated to provide a POV experience of merging with the rowboat paddling through the jungle grasses, bringing us into kinship with the riverway. I loved seeing the wildlife cam footage of the bear and the mountain lion…your stewardship of the land merging with the travel footage. And the fire sequence resembled a flaming flower!” — KATHLEEN SWEENEY, Eco-Artivist
In the 17th century, Rembrandt was one of the most famous Dutch painters of the Golden Period. After 400 years, man has evolved, seemingly reversing his relationship with nature, purporting to be the master, exploiting nature for his own gain. Nature however, has not resigned its mantle. Climate change threatens to upend man’s progress. Weather extremes and rising seas demonstrate that nature truly has the upper hand. The video, with its painterly essence, is also a tribute to the master painter
In the winter of 1882, the physiologist and scientist Étienne-Jules Marey spent hours on the beach of Posillipo in Naples, pointing an odd-shaped gun at flying birds. The locals started calling him "the fool of Posillipo," as no one ever heard a gunshot. Nor did any birds die. Or, perhaps, Marey was involved in an imperceptible process of killing, shooting birds twelve times a second with his latest invention, the chronophotographic gun - a precursor to moving image technology. The audio-visual assemblage locates the "gun camera" as a speculative prototype of imperialist technology, shadowing related practices from the colonial sport of bird hunting to cartography, anthropometry, ethnographic field recordings, and modern warfare.
I am very thankful to the Intermedial Festival for introducing me to the work of Stan Ostoja-Kotkowski. Many of his statements about the arts, technology and life resonated very deeply with me. Now, after I have completed this piece, I feel that we are related. He could be my uncle in our family of artists who work across mediums in an interdisciplinary way. I feel both challenged and inspired by his work and wish he was still present. What stories he could tell! And what would he accomplish with the advances in technology that have been made in the last 30 years? Let us work to continue his legacy.
The little bird Hitch flies quietly in a backyard among chickens, roosters and chicks, who welcome him and offer him food. But at lunch time the best thing to do is to be aware of psychotic animals that are the real “colonels" in the area.
Is there a time in our lives that we give praise to the women that came before us? In the unfolding, we learn how important it is to follow our artistry and talent. “Her Flower Bows” isn’t only an inspiring talk of a single mom, but the entire line of female ancestors from the past, talking to us through the vivid hallucinations of daily life.
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