An exploration of experimental and multidisciplinary forms of cinema
CANADA | 15 minutes | 2014
GERIATRICA is a diminished landscape, both physical and mental. 90-year-old Maria pushes a medical walker down a nursing home corridor. A camera strapped to the walker tracks her movements. She was once a world traveler, but now this corridor defines the extent of her universe. There are windows in this place, but she never looks out. Maria is plagued with short term memory loss. Though she has countlessly retraced this corridor, it is always unfathomable—a personal event horizon. Maria manages information like an exhausted swimmer treads water, grasping at the same few thoughts endlessly, never getting anywhere. All information is new, then rapidly sinks out of sight. Maria wants to die, but is no longer capable of doing anything about it. GERIATRICA is about being lost forever in the ‘now’.
As part of PROGRAMME LAB 2
No biography
selected videos and films? Walking Away; 1974; 1 min.? Running in 0 and R; 1975; 21 min.? Editing on the Run; 1976; 26 min.? Crash Points 1; 1976; 19 min.? Crash Points 2; 1977; 11 min.? Penetrated (Male); 1977; 14 min.? Penetrated (Female) (aka: Two Deadly Women); 1978; 15 min. ? The Dogs of Dance; 1979; 19 min.? Dance of Terror; 1979; 8 min.? DP; 1982; 17 min.? Transylvania 1917; 1984; 29 min.? Guildwood; 2009; 3 min.? Otters (in Camera); 2010; 6 min.? Forest (with Dissolves); 2010; 18 min.? Starlings (at Nightfall); 2010; 8 min.? G20 Detention Centre (Never Sleep Again); 2010; 5 min.? Power Plants; 2011; 21 min.? Power Plants (3-screen installation); 2011; 21 min.? Walking Away 2; 1974-2011; 5 min.? Choreographed Sequences from DP; 1982-2011; 8 min.? Crash Points 1; 1976-2011 (re-mastered and re-edited for HD video); 19 min.? Crash Points 2; 1977-2011 (re-mastered and re-edited for HD video); 11 min.? Crash Points 3; 1976-1977-2011; 11 min.? Dissolving Forest; 2011; 9 min.? Flag; 2012; 4 min. ? Establishing Equal Grounds for Mutual Support; 1974-2012; 4 min.? Constant and Repeating Elements, Random or Changing Elements; 1974-2012; 5 min.? Different as Night and Day; 2012; 16 min. and min. versions? Transit of Venus; 2012; 3 min.? Condos with Million Dollar Views; 2012; 29 min.? Sculptures You Can Live In; 2013; 10 min.? Shamans, the Cunning; 2013; 13:30 and 1 min. versions? DP2; 1982-2014; 16:17 min.? Edgy, Sexy ,Modern; 2014; 22 min.? Penetrated (M+F); 2014; 12:45 min.? Geriatrica; 2014; 14:40 min.
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