Aerial Conduits
Friday, February 7th, 2020
7:00 PM
Woodland Pattern Book Center
720 E Locust St
Milwaukee, WI 53212
Staying With The Trouble
Alyona Larionova, 2018, 14 min 05 sec
Synopsis:
A hybrid documentary film that follows a Kazakh berkutchi (eagle-hunter) on his journey to tame his wild eagle, Sadak. The film draws upon the unique bond between the hunter and his eagle to provide a meditation on power relations in a world dealing with security crisis and accelerating hyperconnectivity. Oscillating between states of control and submission, berkutchi, Sadak, a judoist, and a border control officer, offer viewers their own bodily interpretations of the constantly shifting power scales.
Artist Bio:
Alyona Larionova (b. 1988, Moscow) is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her works investigate weighty subjects (technology, storytelling, linguistics) and locations (Internet Archive, a conservation lab, a bankrupted city). The tension between order and chaos, and the rapid changes in technological and natural spheres ocurring in the world, are what propel her research forward. Since 2015, she has been developping a series of works that call into question our approach to storytelling as well as our obsession with certain narratives that for too long have been and still are presenting us with the debased version of the world.
Recent and upcoming shows include participation in the 11th edition of Lo Schermo Dell’Arte Film Festival in Florence, Kasseler Dokfest, a group show at Exposed Arts Projects London, the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil and the 7th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art.
From the Crow’s Mouth
Cindy Mochizuki, 2017, 11 min 20 sec
Synopsis:
Created by 63 paintings from coffee readings gifted to residents in the Daisen Tottori-ken area in Japan, From the Crow’s Mouth, explores dream through a visual journey of 63 futures.
From the Crow’s Mouth, Digital and hand painted animation and illustrations. Animation Cindy Mochizuki, Sound Design Antoine Bédard, Editing Cande Andrade.
Artist Bio:
Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installation, audio fiction, performance, animation, drawings and community-engaged projects. Her works explore the manifestation of story and its relationship to site-specificity, the transpacific, invisible histories, archives, and memory work. She has exhibited, performed and screened her work in Canada, US, and Asia. Exhibitions include the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, Washington), Yonago City Museum (Yonago, Japan), The New Gallery (Calgary), Hamilton Artists Inc (Hamilton), and Koganecho Bazaar (Yokohama). cindymochizuki.com
592 metroz goiti (Above 592 metres)
Maddi Barber, 2018, 24 min 30 sec
Synopsis:On the slopes of the Navarrese Pyrenees, the construction of the Itoiz dam in the 1990s flooded seven villages and three nature reserves. A strip of bare land, 592 metres above sea level, today marks a dividing line within the landscape of the valley. Below that level, the water; above it, life goes on.
Artist Bio:Maddi Barber is a basque filmmaker. She graduated in Audiovisual Communication from the University of the Basque Country and in 2017 got a master’s degree in
Visual Anthropology from the University of Manchester. In 2015 she was invited to participate in Zinergentziak #15, where she collectively managed Distantziak. In 2018, together with Christopher Murray and Charlotte Hoskins, she directed Yours Truly, premiered at the Punto de Vista festival in Pamplona. The short film 592 metroz goiti (Above 592 metres) has been premiered at the Visions du Réel festival (Nyon, Switzerland) and also participated in San Sebastian International Film Festival.