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(Image credit: Vibrations from Gaza, by Rehab Nazzal, 2024)
This videotape titled F I L M evolved from an initial impulse to download film noir sequences without characters in the footage. My PIXABAY search instead yielded sequences of almost completely black (or almost completely white) film stocks. I decided to combine the specks and scratches of film footage with moving images of… ⊕
Land Marks is a video work consisting of twenty-four drawings. Twelve drawings are of the number twenty-seven and the other twelve of the number seventy-two. These are mirrored or reversible numbers. The sequence of drawings occurs thrice. Therefore there are seventy-two numbered drawings, followed by abstracted images which… ⊕
Can you die of a broken heart? Kardia is the story of Hope (Mimi Kuzyk) a pathologist who embarks on an unusual journey of reconciliation. Her story begins in the brief instant that her heart stops. With a photograph as her only artifact she sets out to unravel the mystery that surrounds her early life. The film weaves… ⊕
Both fable and ode to plants, The Everlasting Pea is a short film that explores our human relationship with the botanic world. Journeying through ancient ruins, mysterious dreamscapes, and ethereal otherworldly plant images, the story moves between a scientist who anaesthetizes a pea plant, questioning plant awareness and our… ⊕
An homage to Chicago artist and toolmaker Dan Sandin’s 1973 video, Five-minute Romp through the IP, in which Sandin demos the Image Processor (IP), a modular analog video synthesizer he built the same year, and encouraged artists to "copy it right." In this video (created while at an artist’s residency in… ⊕