PROGRAM THREE EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEOS
WAR
Phil Bloom is primarily known as performance artist, painter and photographer. Here films unlike here performance piece have rarely been screened. War is a film that uses her paintings, photographs, drawing with historical photos to comment on the 2nd World and contextualize it and comment on War in general. A very strong and provocative piece that is as political as it is a personal reflections of here post war existence as an artist.
THOU SHALT NOT KILL
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Matthew 7:1-2) A man kills someone; a judge executes prisoners. Who have the right to kill? Who have the right to judge? Camera zooms out, the judge is being judged in return.
Robots were my bogeymen and imaginary friends when I was a child. I grew up around early toy robots as y parents wrote a book on antique sci fi collectables called SPACETOYS. From these experiences I became preoccupied with these automatons-made-modern. I created this video out of my fascination with these motifs and to show how they still affect our visions of the future.
UNREAL IS HERE
In the spirit of the Situationists International, UNREAL IS HERE subverts the spectacle of the nightly news and entertainment television in a way that challenges dominate media codes and representation. The commodification of the image had become such a cultural norm that the real had been replaced with hyper real. As these murky boundaries ominously continue to blur, a critical sense and mental environment need to be arranged in a way that actively engages the viewer in thought provoking manner. Before change can occur, people must be conscious of our postmodern condition.
Semi abstract video footage was organized into a series of repetitive patterns. The same was done with bits of sound. These initial experiments suggested a further development through computer software manipulation. Then more recognizable images were shot and added. The result is "Untitled".
THE BIRTH
A collage of digital video and images that examines birth and living in the modern world.
An attempt to discover psychic energy in controlled sexuality.
THE VOICE INSIDE
You will listen to the voice….
You will obey the voice…
You will never suppress THE VOICE AGAIN….
ROOM
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