Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Subsurface (00:04:57)
Production: 2016
A short video with no narrative structure.
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Prosenc Stearns, Nataša - Sunset (00:02:07)
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2016
Video shows a back of a female torso, which moves against a black background. Isolated from the rest of the body, several layers of the torso travel over the screen and interact in a semi controlled manner. The fact that we are watching a human body is only revealed after a while, as the layering partially abstracts the moving images. The migration of layers creates a video collage, slowly shifting from figurative to abstract expressions and back. A strong organic and corporeal charge changes into an opti...
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2016
Video shows a back of a female torso, which moves against a black background. Isolated from the rest of the body, several layers of the torso travel over the screen and interact in a semi controlled manner. The fact that we are watching a human body is only revealed after a while, as the layering partially abstracts the moving images. The migration of layers creates a video collage, slowly shifting from figurative to abstract expressions and back. A strong organic and corporeal charge changes into an opti...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Methuselah and the Wooden Sky (00:03:00)
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2015
Methuselah is one of the oldest leaving trees and grows at the elevation of 9800 ft above sea level in Bristlecone Pine Forrest in the Californian White Mountains. Together with other ancient pines in the forest, Methuselah survived over 4000 years. As centuries pass and the trees are battered by the elements, they become sculpted into astonishing shapes. While most of their wood is dead, growth continues through a thin layer of bark. When all life finally ceases, the snags stand for a thousand years or mo...
Production: Kanalya Pictures, 2015
Methuselah is one of the oldest leaving trees and grows at the elevation of 9800 ft above sea level in Bristlecone Pine Forrest in the Californian White Mountains. Together with other ancient pines in the forest, Methuselah survived over 4000 years. As centuries pass and the trees are battered by the elements, they become sculpted into astonishing shapes. While most of their wood is dead, growth continues through a thin layer of bark. When all life finally ceases, the snags stand for a thousand years or mo...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Marianne and the Water Veil (00:04:13)
Production: 2015
There are certain images with such strong associations with particular meanings that it seems almost impossible to see them for what they really are. A shaved female head is definitely one of them. It nearly always implies something negative; a disease, a punishment, etc. Marianne and the Water Veil shows fragility of such image. The video is part of the series Haiku Videos, which originate in daily recordings with minimal staging. They are created when a real life situation motivates an idea. Like in H...
Production: 2015
There are certain images with such strong associations with particular meanings that it seems almost impossible to see them for what they really are. A shaved female head is definitely one of them. It nearly always implies something negative; a disease, a punishment, etc. Marianne and the Water Veil shows fragility of such image. The video is part of the series Haiku Videos, which originate in daily recordings with minimal staging. They are created when a real life situation motivates an idea. Like in H...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Black Waters (Ophelia) (00:06:19)
Subtitle: Black Waters and Other Stories (series)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2016
Video is a part of "Black Waters and Other Stories" series - short videos with no narrative structure.
Subtitle: Black Waters and Other Stories (series)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2016
Video is a part of "Black Waters and Other Stories" series - short videos with no narrative structure.
Zvonka T Simčič - Ad Utero Ab Ovo (00:05:00)
Production: Zavod CCC, 2007
Zvonka T Simčič is one of the few female visual artists whose works address the theme of motherhood in an extremely engage manner. In her innovative performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” (2007) she critically addressed the problem of the (non-)possibility of single women being artificially inseminated, such that by means of the image of herself as the pregnant Virgin Mary she presented her own experience of insemination, pregnancy, and child birth. The performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” was alr...
Production: Zavod CCC, 2007
Zvonka T Simčič is one of the few female visual artists whose works address the theme of motherhood in an extremely engage manner. In her innovative performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” (2007) she critically addressed the problem of the (non-)possibility of single women being artificially inseminated, such that by means of the image of herself as the pregnant Virgin Mary she presented her own experience of insemination, pregnancy, and child birth. The performance Doulas “ad utero, ab ovo” was alr...
Zvonka T Simčič - The Turning of the Time Trace (00:11:00)
Production: Zavod CCC, 2010
The turning of the time trace. The video presents the relativity of the linear comprehension of time. The Death is always present. Already Einstein revealed, that parallel time in reality does not exist. It was created by men for their consolation. I am all the time in the place, where I have already been; and also in the place, where I will be when I take my last breath. And in the place, where an inspiration resides between inhalation and expiration. In the place, where in the trace another trace is r...
Production: Zavod CCC, 2010
The turning of the time trace. The video presents the relativity of the linear comprehension of time. The Death is always present. Already Einstein revealed, that parallel time in reality does not exist. It was created by men for their consolation. I am all the time in the place, where I have already been; and also in the place, where I will be when I take my last breath. And in the place, where an inspiration resides between inhalation and expiration. In the place, where in the trace another trace is r...
Zvonka T Simčič - Poezija (00:07:41)
Subtitle: (Slovenska verzija)
Production: Zavod CCC, 2015
This video is a coming-nearer – between the camerawoman/the video camera and the singer, the poet – the subtle video-touches. The opening ups/pursuits of the soft spots in the poet’s world, and all this imbued with everydayness – commonness, custom/ariness. The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. (Hildegarde of Bingen) (Source: Zvonka T Simčič)
Subtitle: (Slovenska verzija)
Production: Zavod CCC, 2015
This video is a coming-nearer – between the camerawoman/the video camera and the singer, the poet – the subtle video-touches. The opening ups/pursuits of the soft spots in the poet’s world, and all this imbued with everydayness – commonness, custom/ariness. The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is the mother of all, for contained in her are the seeds of all. (Hildegarde of Bingen) (Source: Zvonka T Simčič)
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Odalisque (00:03:21)
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2016
Image of a woman reposing on a couch has been a popular motif for visual artist and a loaded subject for feminist discussions for a long time. Video Odalisque takes the elements of the traditional representation and rearranges them by employing various editing and compositing techniques. The body is semi-abstracted by the water curtain, which is partially obstructing the scene on the couch. So the image of the woman keeps escaping from the gaze in several driftnet ways: by changing its position, by disappea...
Production: Nataša Prosenc Stearns, 2016
Image of a woman reposing on a couch has been a popular motif for visual artist and a loaded subject for feminist discussions for a long time. Video Odalisque takes the elements of the traditional representation and rearranges them by employing various editing and compositing techniques. The body is semi-abstracted by the water curtain, which is partially obstructing the scene on the couch. So the image of the woman keeps escaping from the gaze in several driftnet ways: by changing its position, by disappea...
Nataša Prosenc Stearns - Nightmares of the New World (00:07:31)
Subtitle: Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers, Alternative Facts in Nucleus Brass
Production: 2017
Series of three single-channel videos - Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts, Nucleus Brass. The work of the video artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns is never directly illustrative, but her new series Nightmares of the New World is clearly a reaction to the bleak socio-political climate. The first three videos of the series: Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts and Nucleus Brass, address the uncertainty of our physicality from an embryo to a robot, the rising...
Subtitle: Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers, Alternative Facts in Nucleus Brass
Production: 2017
Series of three single-channel videos - Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts, Nucleus Brass. The work of the video artist and filmmaker Nataša Prosenc Stearns is never directly illustrative, but her new series Nightmares of the New World is clearly a reaction to the bleak socio-political climate. The first three videos of the series: Humans Crossing, Deafening Whispers / Alternative Facts and Nucleus Brass, address the uncertainty of our physicality from an embryo to a robot, the rising...