TERMINAL BEACH
Screenings:
December 2009
Millennium Film Workshop and The New American Cinema Group. The Film-Makers' Cooperative.
ABOUT
An obscure chronicle of strange moments take place in an ( imagined ?) urban landscape where nature has rebelled against humanity. A world at the end of the road leads us to consider the high toll of consumerism and its effects on the environment.
December 2009
Millennium Film Workshop and The New American Cinema Group. The Film-Makers' Cooperative.
ABOUT
An obscure chronicle of strange moments take place in an ( imagined ?) urban landscape where nature has rebelled against humanity. A world at the end of the road leads us to consider the high toll of consumerism and its effects on the environment.
IN AN ALIEN LAND
In an Alien Land is a collaboration between filmmaker and artist Angela Christlieb based in Vienna and who also stars in the film, and New York artist, filmmaker, and cinematographer Maria Niro. The concept came about during Christlieb's visit in New York in the fall of 2016, during the presidential elections in America.
The split screen reveals two distinct places displayed side by side: a tropical serene landscape and an American metropolis which is eventually filled with political tension. With each segment of the film, we are shown different perspectives of place and time. Associations arise and dissipate over again.
The split screen reveals two distinct places displayed side by side: a tropical serene landscape and an American metropolis which is eventually filled with political tension. With each segment of the film, we are shown different perspectives of place and time. Associations arise and dissipate over again.
WORDS an online collaboration viideo installation between Maria Niro and Richard Broomhall View the four videos here
Screenshot from "Money"
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Screenshot from "Surface"
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An online installation collaboration between Richard Broomhall (based in UK) and Maria Niro (based in NYC). Four videos.
WORDS is an evolving moving image collaboration, exploring language, cultural context, chance and the nature of online artistic relationships. Entirely remote from one another, the two artists investigate the power of synchronicity in art. The artists never met in person, never seen the others face or heard the others voice.
Each artist takes a turn in proposing a word. Then they are to create a two minute video with original sound interpreting the proposed word. The work has to be shot in each artist’s lived environment and be a response to said environment. All images and audio must be original. There is no discussion of content or production techniques or direction. Neither watched the others work until both were finished. The videos are then composited as a diptych, with no tweaking to adjust synchronization, and is then uploaded to the internet and available for viewing world wide. The collaboration continues, each Artist both client and creator, remotely communicating only through email, video and sound - neither planning past the next word. They don’t know where the project will go or how it will end only that it is a work in progress, and unlike a hollywood film, it may not have an end and could go on for years.
Maria is based in New York, USA and Richard is based in Bristol, UK. They don’t know where the project will go or how it will end but ask you to accompany them in finding out by checking back regularly and giving your feedback.
WORDS is an evolving moving image collaboration, exploring language, cultural context, chance and the nature of online artistic relationships. Entirely remote from one another, the two artists investigate the power of synchronicity in art. The artists never met in person, never seen the others face or heard the others voice.
Each artist takes a turn in proposing a word. Then they are to create a two minute video with original sound interpreting the proposed word. The work has to be shot in each artist’s lived environment and be a response to said environment. All images and audio must be original. There is no discussion of content or production techniques or direction. Neither watched the others work until both were finished. The videos are then composited as a diptych, with no tweaking to adjust synchronization, and is then uploaded to the internet and available for viewing world wide. The collaboration continues, each Artist both client and creator, remotely communicating only through email, video and sound - neither planning past the next word. They don’t know where the project will go or how it will end only that it is a work in progress, and unlike a hollywood film, it may not have an end and could go on for years.
Maria is based in New York, USA and Richard is based in Bristol, UK. They don’t know where the project will go or how it will end but ask you to accompany them in finding out by checking back regularly and giving your feedback.
Maria Niro, Artist
Photography • Filmmaking • Sound