Threads of Memory and Exile: Examining the Art of Story Telling in the Work of Vera Frenkel
Images Festival of Independent Film and, 1997, pp. 40-45
Toronto: Northern Visions, 1997
Frenkel's video works were featured during the Images Festival with the title Vera Frenkel Spotlight (Toronto, 1997) this project was sponsored by the Oakville Galleries.
The three programs that were presented overview how storytelling has evolved in Frankel's work, from an examination of the instability of the boundaries between fiction and truth to interweave themes of memory and exile with caution tales of bureaucracy and fantasy. It was presented the different ways she approached issues arising from the relationship of technology to the body, history, messianic fantasies and false redemptions.
ITEM 1997.093 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
...from the Transit Bar – Vera Frenkel
String: Games Improvisations for Inner City Video – Vera Frenkel
Body Missing – Vera Frenkel
No Solution - A Suspense Thriller, #2, Introduction to Some Players – Vera Frenkel
No Solution - A Suspense Thriller, #5, Signs of a Plot: A Text, True Story & Work of Art – Vera Frenkel
The Secret Life of Cornelia Lumsden; A Remarkable Story; Part 1: Her Room in Paris – Vera Frenkel
The Secret Life of Cornelia Lumsden; A Remarkable Story; Part 2: "... And Now the Truth", (A Parenthesis) – Vera Frenkel
Introduction to Some of the Players and Signs of A Plot: A Text, True Story & Work of Art – Vera Frenkel
Stories from the Front (& Back) – Vera Frenkel
The Last Screening Room: A Valentine – Vera Frenkel
Censored: or Making of a Pornographer – Vera Frenkel
This is Your Messiah – Vera Frenkel
Lost Art: Cargo-Cult Romance – Vera Frenkel