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Counterfeit Sex Series
Video /Sound Maria Niro Also featuring The Gift of Red by Dorit Chrysler
Talking Heads, Lost Heads and Souvenirs are part of the Counterfeit Sex Series, an ongoing project of experimental comedy shorts. In Talking Heads and Lost Heads vintage mannequins on displays come to life and speak their minds about death and romance, nature and the environment, cultural and gender identities, sexuality and language, among other things. Souvenirs imagines a future not so distant from the present, where the inanimate world reflected in shop windows comes to life, and turns every human into a ghost that endlessly walk the streets of New York City. Much like the classic sci-fi where the cyborg becomes more human, mannequins prove there is indeed a lack of distinction between reality and simulacra.
The videos are created with film and digital stills (photographed in Amsterdam and in New York) and video. Some of the scenes are animated with stop motion and some of the dialogue is created with speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech text. All sound is original and created by Maria Niro except The Gift of Red by Dorit Chrysler.
Screenings: Lost Heads FESTIVAL Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Festival of the New Latin American Cinema) Havana CUBA December 1-11, 2011.
Video /Sound Maria Niro Also featuring The Gift of Red by Dorit Chrysler
Talking Heads, Lost Heads and Souvenirs are part of the Counterfeit Sex Series, an ongoing project of experimental comedy shorts. In Talking Heads and Lost Heads vintage mannequins on displays come to life and speak their minds about death and romance, nature and the environment, cultural and gender identities, sexuality and language, among other things. Souvenirs imagines a future not so distant from the present, where the inanimate world reflected in shop windows comes to life, and turns every human into a ghost that endlessly walk the streets of New York City. Much like the classic sci-fi where the cyborg becomes more human, mannequins prove there is indeed a lack of distinction between reality and simulacra.
The videos are created with film and digital stills (photographed in Amsterdam and in New York) and video. Some of the scenes are animated with stop motion and some of the dialogue is created with speech synthesis, the artificial production of human speech text. All sound is original and created by Maria Niro except The Gift of Red by Dorit Chrysler.
Screenings: Lost Heads FESTIVAL Internacional Del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano (Festival of the New Latin American Cinema) Havana CUBA December 1-11, 2011.
