[phrases] 2013 - 2016
Three short videos made using a small consumer security camera and adapted from Daniel Paul Schreber’s book “Memoirs of My Nervous Illness” (1884). Conceived of as a longer, ongoing series of films, but abandoned after the completion of the third video.
I. [phrases]
4.5, digital, 2013
Voices heard during sleep tell the story of the body struggling to form. This body syncopates with the pulsing network of insects. This archive of night is inscribed on the blank page of the body. I can hear the voices speak even now. This is the first video in an ongoing series of adaptations from Daniel Paul Schreber's ecstatic memoir.
Preview link available here.
Screenings:
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
II. [deterritorialization]
2.5, digital, 2013
The body is strata. Strata need to be rent apart and slipped between. The landscape and the mechanism shatter while the data from both conjoin in spiral formations. Look, the sun is shining overhead. This is the second in an ongoing series of adaptations from Daniel Paul Schreber's ecstatic memoir.
Preview link available here.
Screenings:
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA
Basement Media Fest, New York City, NY
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
"The Improbable Made Possible: A Displaced People," Terrault Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Winnipeg Underground Film Festival
III. [morphogenesis]
9 minutes, digital video, 2016
More fragments from the nerve language. The third installation in an ongoing series of adaptations of Daniel Paul Schreber's ecstatic memoir.
Screenings:
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival, Haverhill, MA