Unbroken beat of soul
International Contemporary Video art
at the third Mediterranean laity festival
15 – 24 ocober 2010- Ex Aurum Pescara – Italy
Since it is granted an essential body centre (the heartbeat) which allows an unconscious, unintentional biological life, can we think of a similar place allowing the existence as human being, as ‘persona’ and identity, as awareness and conscious relationship with the outer world and the others?
The videos suggested lead us towards a different place, where Art goes deep down and into the core of the anthropological question just before becoming ‘communication’, ‘celebration’, ‘marketing’, ‘rhetorical power’, ‘narration’, ‘style’ and so on.
Our choice has fallen upon videos which ask questions, open perspectives but offer no solutions: they leave us alone to rebuild possible interpretations. They take us to the root of ‘laity’, when love, the need for happiness, dread of violence, reciprocity, society, community, neither openly turn into politics, ethics, sociology, religion, ideology, nor coincide with cultural abstractions, languages, analytical processes but remain ‘humanitas’ shared values instead.
videoart by:
Barbara Agreste
Khosro Khorsavi/Farid Jafari
Emanuela Barbi/Gianluca Stuard
Tarin Gartner
Mandra Cerrone
Liuba
Paolo Dell’Elce
Gino Sabatini Odoardi
Franco Fiorillo
Curated by Antonio Zimarino
Opening 15 october 6.30 pm
Reptilica
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Reptilica is partly animation and partly a film where real people perform. It Starts with a doll which is animated with the stop motion technique, she is searching through the many dry leaves that rest on the floor, something she has seen or felt passing by, but she can’t seem to find it.
Other scenes in the movie introduce small pink worms falling on a group of ivy leaves, these are the disturbing presence that bother the doll as they sneak under the leaves, never letting themselves to be seen. These worms might be imaginary creatures belonging to the same fragmented body of the doll/woman.
The doll’s actions alternate with those of a real woman, which is also searching through the leaves, and her movements at some stage of the film become frenetic: she tries to cover her body with the plants as if to operate an impossible symbiosis with nature.
