Created as a silent, large-scale installation for public spaces, National Tapestry draws our focus to the weft and the warp of the woven image. The materiality of a distressed patriotic symbol echoes the struggles and ambitions of a culture, land and history that are both loved and despised by many.
Short film , Experimental
CANADA | 2 minutes | 2015
Le Pays Dévasté relates to the Anthropocene, the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
FRANCE | 12 minutes | 2015
Wandering in a dreamland, a young woman travels and teleports herself into the memory and mystery of the landscape. The dream becomes a looping, flickering image with echoing sound. The screen becomes an immersive meditation.
CHINA | 19 minutes | 2014
An experimental movie about horror movies. No physical human actors, yet a clear storyline. The screen itself, seen as a body and membrane, gets attacked by evil spirits. Of course, suspense and shock play a vital role, both visually and in the soundtrack.Angst, different than fear, has no “of what,” its object is a void: THE in huge red letters, joined by the screech of a crow against a cloud-covered background. THE what? The Thing, The Ring, The Descent, The Exorcist or...
AUSTRIA | 13 minutes | 2015
In 1925 Surrealists in Paris started to use a writing and drawing technique they called “Cadavre exquis”, which translates as “The Exquisite Corpse”. That technique engages several participants to blindly collaborate in the creation of a single unified image or sentence: One person would write a word or draw part of a body on a piece of paper, fold it over and pass it on to a next participant who would add another piece without seeing what had come before, hand it over to...
AUSTRIA | 19 minutes | 2015
Transforming anonymous found footage into powerful, expressive and painterly imagery, Engram of Returning (“engram,” also called “memory-trace”) is a film about memory and recollection. The film sets out to give form to a constellation of the introspective mirages left behind by the filmmaker, reconstructed through interwoven backward glances at the real, the imagined and the remembered.“The figure of the jig-saw / that is of picture, / the representation of a world as...
CANADA | 19 minutes | 2015
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