AnaStef
Timekeeper
This film has a very simple narrative, the story of the time passing, which was not planed but evolved from the recording experiments looking in to contingency behind chosen objects. Looking through the recorded material, I realised that when objects or events are taken out of their usual context and exposed in theatrical setting, they start to play a different role.
Free falling flour created poetic and magical visual effects. With overexposed lighting, it began to shimmer in the dark. Its physical lightness made it vulnerable to the air movements, creating flying particles that I wanted to catch. The recording of my own hands, revealed my age and at that moment the narrative for the time passing was born.
Bread making have a deeper meaning for me. I come from the tradition where its meaning is connected to the idea of eternal life . I also used to make bread for my family every other day for many years. It was therefore not a surprise to me when, under the strong light, the ordinary process of kneading bread dough transformed into a performance about life.
Timekeeper(duration 4 min 16sec)
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At the time of makin, Timekeeper was marking a new direction in my practice. This short experimental film started as video recording research, looking in to contingencies behind flour and bread and hands or extracting the subject from the object.
Some of the elements existed previously in my photography practice, such as use of lighting to enhance object physical presents, close up shots and visual uncertainty. However, moving image has offered me new ways to engage with the abstract, philosophical aspects of human experience and possibility to communicate them more successfully.
Little Cosmos
Little Cosmos(duration 4 min 4 sec)
Little cosmos came about from an experimentation with water and lighting using some of the main elementary components of the life on our planet, sand and ink. Aestheticly, wathing this film is colourful and relaxing experience. However, similarly to my other film projects, Little Cosmos asks questions that may not be obvious on first glance. Throughout the film, not much is revealed about where and what is going on. The almost hypnotic journey in to the world of slow moving colour floating through the undefined space, and occasional intense drops from above, comes to an end in the last couple of frames with the action of closing the top of the bottle.
My intention was to introduce a controlled action, and with it the question about how much control we can have over our own inner universe and its processes. This project could be described as an assemblage of abstract moving paintings, that collectively make up a little universe of some kind, full of intense, deep experiences, and probably part of some bigger, other universe.