.films
I have made a number of short films, including a documentary - please find a selection below. My next project is to make a music video for noisecore band grandMal.
> blonder and blonder
A critical visual investigation of what it means to be blonde, including vomiting, Russian brides, nodding, smiles, and Lolo Ferrari.
> blossom - a digital orifice
blossom is an alternative audiovisual interpretation of digital moving image. It is centered around the organic, orificial, and thus presents an alternative to hegemonic digital visual culture from a distinctly female perspective. By hegemonic digital visual culture I am referring to its mainstream look which foregrounds readability and cleanliness (such as in broadcast graphics, flash aesthetics/web graphics, computer games, Hollywood interpretations such as Toy Story, Shrek, etc.).
In blossom, I developed an alternative audiovisual culture based on the machinic body. I used a screen orifice to invite voyeurism in what seems an exploration of representational jumps linked by colours, sounds, and eroticised imagery. blossom’s audio-visual language is characterised by abundance, overflow, rhythm and binary play (open/close; presence/absence etc.). Its soundtrack is a variety of strong disparate sounds, held together by their recurrence and the key song is Marlene Dietrich’s Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt, thus reflecting the general intention of my film – an erotic ontology of digital (visual) culture.
>xxx
Triple x, or three kisses. XXX plays with notions such as voyeurism, desire, control, and power. The image I use is the intimate event of a kiss between two lovers that is never accomplished. The title is a play on the meaning of triple X, referring both to hardcore porn as well as to three kisses. The three X thus signify both (commercialised) sex and intimate love and affection, while in the film, neither expectation of the viewer is fulfilled.
The displayed intimacy is subverted on a number of levels. First of all, the structured soundtrack, which contains sounds derived from film and radio production is highly artificial and disciplined, referring to the conscious production of the material seen. The sounds are mechanical and eerie, and the soundtrack connotes industrial monotony and work rather than pleasure.
Secondly, the lovers portrayed are not equal. There is a sense of power imbalance between them: one of the actors is dressed (in black), the other one is naked, connotating vulnerability. The one that is dressed is also the one who is aware of the camera, occasionally looking at it and thus making the viewer accomplice of what is being staged. Her expression remains blank. The naked lover, on the contrary, remains unaware of the camera. This constructed hierarchy betrays any notions of authentic intimacy, as it displays a clear control on side of the dressed person (conscious of the action of intimacy).
In XXX, a kiss is presented as a succession of similar visual rituals rather than a teleological action. I wanted to create a staged piece with references to a real event, leaving the spectator with a void that she cannot fill, thus leaving her frustrated.
> other arts
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Short documentary introducing disabled artist Katherine Araniello. The idea was for this to be the first part of a 4-part-series on 'other arts' - i.e. arts outside the mainstream.
other arts - volume I was meant as a potential commissioning proposal for a mainstream television channel. Portraying a disabled woman artist, the film is the first part of a possible series about alternative artists. Subsequent films could portray women rock group collectives and transsexual performers. The aim of the overall proposed series was to reach a young and contemporary audience, by using a style of progressive television-making (fast-paced, flashy, influenced by MTV and youth culture) and applying this style to a ‘non trendy’ subject matter, e.g. disability, transsexuality, and women rock collectives.