Venetian Horizon (SCR/DIR Nataa Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2024, 01:39.) Created during a residency at the City of Santa Monica Camera Obscura Lab in a studio with giant glass windows overlooking the ocean. The non-stop presence of the horizon with its infinite varieties inspired her to start recording it every day. The Horizons are part of the ongoing Haiku Videos series, which originates in daily unstaged recordings. Like in Haiku poetry, Haiku videos are based on directly observed everyday occurrences and created spontaneously, when a real-life circumstance gives rise to an idea. Like scientific research, the outcome of this process is not yet known. It is being articulated during the act of artistic creation.
Moment in the Sun (SCR/DIR Nataa Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2019, 02:33. Cinematic poem.) Shot in Venice, California during the sunset hours, this is part of my Haiku videos series, which originate in daily unstaged recordings. Like in Haiku poetry, the images of Haiku videos are based on directly observed everyday occurrences and created spontaneously, when a real-life circumstance gives rise to an idea.
On the Rooftops of Those Who Sleep (SCR/DIR Antonello Murgia, ITALY, 2024. Sci-fi. 15:00). Tuvixeddu is the largest Punic necropolis in the Mediterranean. What remains is a fragment of beauty that has survived the abuses of time, history and builders. a cemetery where one has the impression that it is night even in the daytime. Eternal ghosts, like evicted tenants, tell this drama: whispers and cries of the fleeting, made of verses from Giacomo Leopardis La sera del dì di festa: and think how everything in the world passes and leaves barely a trace (US premiere. Rated G)
iva (The Death of the Goddess iva) (SCR/DIR Nataa Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2023, 09:53.) iva (The Death of the Goddess iva) (SCR/DIR Nataa Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA, 2023, 09:53. Experimental video art.) Inspired by the Slovene national epic The Baptism on Savica (1836), by France Preeren. iva (life, alive, living) was a pagan goddess of love and prosperity. The poem about the violent Christianization of the Slovenes depicts her replacement by Virgin Mary. Nine semi-abstract scenes reveal her transformations through relationship to nature and historic events, suggesting the senselessness of wars
Memoir of a Water Urn (SCR/DIR Hyonok Kim, USA, 2023. 24:48.) A village is hit by drought due to climate change. Rivers and creeks dried up. Nowhere, can they find water. For the last chance Narae, and 8-year-old Tunbe, head of the family, go to the Gypsum Sands Dunes to fetch water. Their family waits for water at home. (Avant-première)
Location
"La Nacional" (View)
239 West 14th Street
New York, NY 10011
United States