Duration of Video: INFINITY (4
minutes, 23 seconds)
INIFINITY is a silent digital video, 2010.
The heart of INFINITY is a film passage that
began as an experiment by Thomas Edison to merge sound with moving image. For
more than a century this film had quite literally lost its voice. However, even
without its sound track, it appears remarkably current in the context of
today’s cultural landscape. This loop is a celebration of bodies in motion. One
pair spinning in awkwardly tender circles while the other player sends sound
waves down a cone in search of a place to land (to be recorded) in the hope of
being reunited with its image in another time and place. When looped in an
endless mirrored world of forward and reverse, this timeless sequence seems to
last forever.
THE
GALANTY SHOW
Duration of Video: THE GALANTY SHOW (15
minutes)
THE GALANTY SHOW is a silent digital video, 2009.
Everything you see is a shadow. Pirates,
clowns, a jumping ballerina, hula hooping bunnies, a yogini and other hybrids
combine to form this world of x-ray play. Spaces are drawn open to reveal
multiple vignettes that are happening in another place at another time.
These are all real time actions with the exception
of one, with its frames dropped and time condensed. She is a hybrid, part clown
and part magician, slowly assembling a hat as a vehicle for her own
transformation. These actions celebrate the heroic and vulnerable nature of
simple gestures. Balloons swell, objects orbit, coils expand and bubbles fall
slowly as accumulated gestures combine to take everyday actions into the realm
of the extraordinary.
TRACK
Duration of Video: TRACK (8 minutes)
TRACK is a silent digital video, 2008.
All of the animals
on this train exist on Earth at this time. Some are domesticated; others
populate our circuses and zoos or serve us as beasts of burden, while some
remain free. Each animal in this caravan is arrested in a cage that can only
become realized as a projected silhouette. As this timeless procession moves
across the horizon of a frozen theater, one is left to imagine where this
journey started and where it is heading.
TRACK is a video
that captures both animate and inanimate projections. This silent shadow play
was inspired by the paper animations of Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) and is a
celebration of early film. We embraced bricolage strategies in our making and
child-like imagery that gains gravity over time.
TWIN
Duration of Video: TWIN (4 minutes, 44
seconds)
SOS is a silent digital video, 2010.
TWIN is a silent meditation on movement and
the charged space between objects. Feet immobile, these whimsical cats are
locked in a magnetic dance that is at once playful and sad. Driven by a hand that
is never seen, the space of video makes the scale of these wooden felines
flexible. Their bodies collapse in synchronized movements that are both
familiar and unnatural. The object, once mirrored, becomes twice removed thus
calling the original into question and making the space between the real and
simulated a matter of pure conjecture.
SOS
Duration of Video: SOS (15 minutes)
SOS is a silent digital video, 2009.
Duration of Video: SOS II (6 minutes, 3
Seconds)
SOS is a silent digital video, 2010.
This
work is part of a series of videos exploring SOS, the international call for
help.
SOS I & 2 / INFINITY / THE GALANTY SHOW / TRACK / TWIN (in collaboration with Casey Doyle)