Referred Pain
1. Program
1. Program
VICTORIA, by Olivia Ciummo (10 minutes, HD, 2012)
A visual and sonic poem of
places that are in transition.Three sisters, mixed up with nature and
distorted, search for a place to rest. The acousmetre shares thoughts of
fear, versions of human utopia are taken away
by nature, and we are left with impressions of war. Filmed at
confrontation sites around the eastern US and the wilderness of North
America, with sound by A.E. Paterra.
2. REGARDING THE PAIN OF SUSAN SONTAG (NOTES ON CAMP), by Steve Reinke (4 minutes, DV, 2006)
3. ONE SPECIES REMOVED , by Jennifer Montgomery (38 minutes, HD, 2012)
A video about animal
empathy (anthropomorphism) and our struggles with mortality. The title
reflects a pun, with two supporting sources. The first, that we often
transfer our most profound emotions onto other animals, i.e., "one
species removed." The second, the crackpot but very
moving theories of Rudolf Steiner. He believed that animals have a
group soul, used interchangeably with the term "species." When one
animal dies, the group replaces that part of itself. By contrast, each
human being is an individual species/soul, so that
when we die, a whole species is rendered extinct.
BIOS:
Olivia
Ciummo has screened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography -
Chicago, Museum of Modern Art in New
York, Pittsburgh Biennial, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Media
City Film Festival - Windsor, Crossroads Film Festival - San Francisco,
as well as galleries, backyards, and cultural centers nationally and
abroad. She recieved her MFA in Moving Image from
the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2010, and went on to teach
cinema and time-based arts at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania from
2010-12. She am now settling into Princeton NJ where she is working on
new films and videos.
Steve
Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his work in video. His
work is in many collections including the Museum
of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the National
Gallery (Ottawa), and has screened at many festivals including Sundance,
Rotterdam, Oberhausen and the New York Video Festival. In 2006 he
received the Bell Canada Video Award. A book of
his scripts, “Everybody Loves Nothing,” was recently published by Coach
House. He has also edited several books, most recently (with Chris
Gehman) “The Sharpest Point: Animation at the End of Cinema.” He has a site that archives his work, www.myrectumisnotagrave.com. His research interests include digital
video production, motion graphics/animation, rhetorical and narrative
strategies for visual art, the voice and psychoanalysis.
Jennifer Montgomery's film titles include One Species
Removed (2012), The Agonal Phase (2010), Deliver (2008), Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006),
Threads of Belonging (2003), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika, (1998),
Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and
Home Avenue (1989). She is currently completing a film with the artist Josiah McElheny.
These films range from experimental essays to
experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films,
Waterbearer Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank. Her work has
shown at international festivals, as well as the 2008
Whitney Biennial (NYC), MoMA (NYC), the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the
Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago), the ICA (London), and the Walker Arts
Center (Minneapolis). She has been the recipient of many grants,
including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Jennifer Montgomery
currently teaches at Bard College and lives in Arlington, MA.
