computer animation and digital video, Music: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
6:55 min. BetaSP © 1994
Synopsis
Modern, cold, invasive... none-the-less, state-of-the-art electronic medical technologies; EPI scans with huge electromagnets, computers, film, and video, have allowed me to create very literal invocations of metaphors that have existed since the age of the Troubadours.
Nothing Broke but the Heart compulsively, hypnotically runs through distorted icons of "love", heart always "center screen". A chaos of color and light, individual frames flash like memories. These hearts - hearts of stone, burning hearts, wooden hearts, "mutated" hearts, hearts that are only words - are punctuated throughout the video by medical images of my body's real heart - breathing, pumping, catching in its rhythm.
This video uses the hardness, the rationality of electronic technology and its processes - the antithesis of emotion - as the language with which to express emotion.
Prizes
Best Video Production
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Festival der Jugend
50 Best
Deutscher Videokunstpreis, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Third Prize,
Art Category
Prix Pixel INA 1995
Screenings
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Touring Program (since 1995)
Oberhausen, Germany
Permanent Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, California USA
2011
WINDOWS II
Projektraum des Deutschen Künstlerbundes
Berlin, Germany
2009
Directors Lounge 2009
Scala, Berlin, Germany
2003
New Media Art Festival
ChiangMai, Thailand
1997
Good and Bad Machines
Academy of Media Arts
Cologne, Germany
Festival International du Film de Femmes, Créteil, France
1996
Pandemonium London Festival of Moving Images
ICA London, England
Bilbao Festival
Bilbao, Spain
Videoforms
Cedex, France
Festival International du Film de Femmes
Créteil, France
1995
London Animation + Effects Festival London, England
2. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg, Germany
ISEA '95
Montreal, Canada
SIGGRAPH 95
Computer Animation Festival
Los Angeles, USA
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Filmothek der Jugend
Oberhausen, Germany
9th Fringe Film & Video Festival Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prix Pixel INA, Imagina
Monte Carlo, Monaco
Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
1994
Viper Intern. Film & Video Festival
Lucern, Switzerland
Deutscher Videokunstpreis
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Freiburger Video Forum
Freiburg, Germany
Press
Tritschler, Johannes C."Die Bilder der Zauberlehrlinge", Journal Film 28, 1994/95, page 71
This work was created during a fellowship at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne
© Clea T. Waite 1994