// pre•formance //

// 7:00 pm // Friday, December 7th, 2018 //
// Woodland Pattern Book Center //
// 720 E Locust St Milwaukee, WI //

Minute Movie 06.05.18, Julie Perini
1 minute, video, 2018

Synopsis:
On April 1, 2011, I started shooting Minute Movies using a small Flip camera. I started shooting Minute Movies as a way to heighten my awareness of the moment, to be more fully present, to engage with my surroundings in an improvised, immediate, spontaneous way.  The rules for the Minute Movies were and continue to be: (1) the shot is at least 60 seconds long, (2) it’s one continuous shot, (3) the camera can move or be static, (4) the video can involve anything at all - my own body, the objects around me…anything. 

Artist Bio:
Originally from Poughkeepie, NY, Julie Perini has been exploring her immediate surroundings with cameras since age 15 when she discovered a VHS camcorder in her suburban home. Preoccupied with daily life, her short-form personal videos are autobiographical, self-reflective, and expressive. Her documentary feature films are produced within and alongside contemporary social movements. 

Onikuma, Alessia Cecchet
12 minutes 8 seconds, HD video, 2016

Synopsis:
Onikuma is Japanese yokai, a demon bear known for chasing horses. Surrounded by a foreign landscape, two women will understand that demons can come in different forms.

Artist Bio:
Alessia Cecchet is a maker of moving images. Originally from Italy, she makes hybrid films that incorporate live action film, found footage, stop motion animation, fibers and sculpture. Her work explores matters of loss, grief and memory with a specific attention with the way we look at animals and specifically animal death. Alessia holds an MFA in Film from Syracuse University and is a Ph.D Candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California Santa Cruz. Alessia’s films have been shown in several countries such as Italy, the US, Australia, Germany, the UK, Egypt, Spain, Republic of Kosovo, Romania, Sweden and Iran.

Minute Movie 11.29.17, Julie Perini
1 minute 24 seconds, video, 2017

Synopsis:
On April 1, 2011, I started shooting Minute Movies using a small Flip camera. I started shooting Minute Movies as a way to heighten my awareness of the moment, to be more fully present, to engage with my surroundings in an improvised, immediate, spontaneous way.  The rules for the Minute Movies were and continue to be: (1) the shot is at least 60 seconds long, (2) it’s one continuous shot, (3) the camera can move or be static, (4) the video can involve anything at all - my own body, the objects around me…anything. 

Artist Bio:
Originally from Poughkeepie, NY, Julie Perini has been exploring her immediate surroundings with cameras since age 15 when she discovered a VHS camcorder in her suburban home. Preoccupied with daily life, her short-form personal videos are autobiographical, self-reflective, and expressive. Her documentary feature films are produced within and alongside contemporary social movements. 

It started from a look, Juliette Frenay
30 minutes, video, 2018

Synopsis:
It started from a look is approaching daily life differently. It is about translation. When a feeling goes beyond words, find the moves. How to express aesthetic. Viewers in museums become movers and not thinkers. I intend to re-question the relationship within daily objects, art pieces, and human behavior.

Performers : Eyrún ævarsdóttir, Jóakim meyvant kvaran, Juliette Francine Frenay
Camera : Arnar Omarsson, Claire Paugam
Editing : Juliette Francine Frenay

Artist Bio:
Juliette Francine was born in 1994 in the south of France, on the hills of Nice. Taking breakfast in front of a wide view which offered me, at every sun rise, new combinations of colors and patterns that I have always been amazed by. I moved to Paris in 2012 and did a school preparation at EMBA Edouard Manet in Gennevilliers. Thanks to this one year, she entered at Beaux-Arts of Paris in 2013.

There, she built a photographic background that gave her a sensitivity to sharpness, textures and color in what she use to see every day. Taken by shapes, forms and curves, I would like to feel the world in the same way I sometimes see it. I wish it could mean what it looks like. The visual would not suggest anything else than what is already present in front of us. Superficiality is defined as a lack of depth, concerned with only what is on the surface or obvious. I would use superficiality in its material meaning to describe what I’m looking for. Superficiality deals with surface. Surface can be a definite space or generate one.  My work deals with superficiality. I would like to bring out a sensitive feeling, which would be generated from the vision of a surface. As music tends us to move its rhythm, I think there is a lot of things to grab from vision that could generate some feelings, thoughts and senses. This when I moved to Reykjavik Iceland in 2016 as an exchange student that my attentions became clearer. I decide I would stay a year more to precise what I started to find in Listahaskoli Islands. This year I focused on performing arts. I graduate there in June 2018 with the collaboration of Beaux Arts Paris.

Minute Movie 02.24.16, Julie Perini
1 minute 13 seconds, video, 2016

Synopsis:
On April 1, 2011, I started shooting Minute Movies using a small Flip camera. I started shooting Minute Movies as a way to heighten my awareness of the moment, to be more fully present, to engage with my surroundings in an improvised, immediate, spontaneous way.  The rules for the Minute Movies were and continue to be: (1) the shot is at least 60 seconds long, (2) it’s one continuous shot, (3) the camera can move or be static, (4) the video can involve anything at all - my own body, the objects around me…anything. 

Artist Bio:
Originally from Poughkeepie, NY, Julie Perini has been exploring her immediate surroundings with cameras since age 15 when she discovered a VHS camcorder in her suburban home. Preoccupied with daily life, her short-form personal videos are autobiographical, self-reflective, and expressive. Her documentary feature films are produced within and alongside contemporary social movements.