Wednesday, April 30, 2008

"Sakya Volcano"(1985, Iceland)

by:auess




translation: Sakya volcano

Name: Volcano Saga

Performance: Joan Jonas, Tilda Swinton&Ron Vawter

Production: Joan Jonas&Alan Kleinberg

Idea: Joan Jonas

White: English

Age: 1985

Length: 29 mins

Countries: Iceland/USA

Color: Black&White&Color

Products: New Television Workshop

Type: Video Art/Experimental/Femininity

Information:
http://www.eai.org/eai/tape.jsp?itemID=2055





Qiongqiaonasi (Joan
Jonas) 1936 was born in New York, the United States is the most famous contemporary female experimental multimedia artists, as a multimedia performance and video art pioneer who, from her late 1960s began to study the media images and the interaction between the physical expression. She often works with the design of complex and sophisticated spatial structure to test different conditions in various arts demonstration results, such as drawing, photography, sound, music or dance, and tried to convey in which more secretive and more dramatic the Feminist consciousness. Qiongqiaonasi involved in the work areas, including acts of art, installations, video and interactive multimedia, and so on.





1985 under Iceland adapted from the ancient myth of the experimental narrative film "Sakya volcano"She is in the field of video art representative, About a medieval young woman explained she could do to find the four have predicted that the dream of the wise men of the story. The four women in the dream she lost a scarf and a ring, a wise man say that they are with her future husband will have four ties. Story by the woman's voice-over narrative, Qiongqiaonasi appear older woman, while Di Aida Swindon appear when they are young, she dreams of the four inserted between the symbolic meaning of the accident, ghost, bizarre Mirage, Iceland and the wildlife screen, with images of a volcanic eruption, all the scenes have all been disrupted and re-combination.





film shooting in Iceland field viewfinder, and in space is extremely avant-garde design, through the King before and after the conversion, stacking, deformation, Fuzzy, Kouxiang experimental techniques such as the actor's performances and connected with different backgrounds, create a collage-style super-real world, magic has really scenes and continuous atmosphere of electronic sound effects together so that the entire film is full of strange after Modern epic sense. At the same time, dream interpretation and the women chat, Qiongqiaonasi trying to female heart of the illusion of marriage and a desire to transfer images from the ceremony. Floyd not only a large number of tablets of the analytical mind, full of symbolic significance of the screen, but also Iceland's magnificent natural scenery and ancient, mysterious Nordic legends. No doubt, "Sakya volcano"is a rare video art.





the film soundtrack of a long-composer Alvin Lucier's "Dream
Songs ", Jon Cooper of the organ recital, Carl MacKenzie of violin music"Glen
Caladh Castle "and the Icelandic singer Anne
Thorhallsdottir works. Video from the "new television art factory"(New Television
Workshop) products, NTW was established in 1974 in Boston, the United States is a video aimed at promoting the development of arts and public television, a Boston public television stations (WGBH). The pilot of the nature of media development projects including dance, drama, music, performing, visual art and experimental film parts, and has been Paik, Joseph
Beuys, Bill
Viola avant-garde artists such as the support of many American classics of early video art films are from NTW. NTW 1980s production of "contemporary art TV"program (Contemporary
Art
Television) to become young artists to express their media works the stage. NTW 1993 due to various reasons, was terminated.






download address (3 x86mb avi):


Joan.Jonas.part1.rar


Joan.Jonas.part2.rar


Joan.Jonas.part3.rar





This is the last one I share my experimental films, later if possible I will recommend some other more and learn from Role of the film.





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