i.thou : worksample, september 2011 1:40
The ongoing work, i.thou, builds on the philosophical complexity articulated in my MFA thesis installation, emulsion: color and light (2002). This work combines a formal consideration of the language of film (projected imagery) with the psychological experience of image-creation of the other.
Iconic heroines are reclaimed from the male directors who created them. Journeys and gestures loop and replay in a semi-conscious narrative of ongoing transformation, the dance of objectification and personhood, image and self. Figures dissolve into underlying archetypes - the body in the desert, the bride, sleeping beauty, caged bird, assassin, martyr, saint, death by childbirth, warrior. I've posted a gallery of still images here.
When finished, the work will run about ninety minutes, with an abstracted sound collage. Chapter : The Bride screened in the Three Rivers Film Festival (2009).