We introduce four works of contemporary art and experimental filmmaking from recent years. Each is a multilayered tale reflecting geographical movement to some other area, or an attempt to cross a border to attain something unlike the present state: Shots of the dangerous train journeys endured by immigrants are contrasted with historical film representations of trains. Attempts to exceed distance and time via Google Maps. Seeking to mimic naturalness through artificially colored photographs of landscapes and spam emails that pretend to have been sent by humans. Cyborgs for exceeding boundaries of race and gender. Multilayered tales are interwoven amidst these efforts toward crossing borders.
Image copyrights of Jesse McLean. Courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Works
Nika AUTOR,Newsreel 63 – The Train of Shadows
Nika AUTOR, Newsreel 63 – The Train of Shadows／2017／38min.／Dialogue in Slovene (with Japanese and English subtitles)
Razan ALSALAH, Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba
Razan ALSALAH, Your father was born 100 years old, and so was the Nakba／2017／7min.／Dialogue in Arabic (with Japanese and English subtitles)
Jesse MCLEAN, Wherever You Go, There We Are
Jesse MCLEAN, Wherever You Go, There We Are／2017／12min.／Dialogue in English (with Japanese subtitles) Image copyrights of Jesse McLean. Courtesy of Video Data Bank, www.vdb.org, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Lili REYNAUD-DEWAR, TEETH GUMS MACHINES FUTURE SOCIETY
Lili REYNAUD-DEWAR, TEETH GUMS MACHINES FUTURE SOCIETY／2016／36min.
