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Glitch Telemetry (2010)
Video +  Sound Design Maria Niro 2010

A digital re-appropriation of propaganda footage on war, technological innovation and mass destruction. The film is reduced to its negative-like state, the work presents an unembellished view into propaganda imagery.

Screenings
4th Annual New York City Anarchist Art Festival 2012
MIM and More Gallery Berlin  2011- 2012. 
Dimensions. Artists Television Access San Francisco CA. 2011
C.A.R.  Media Art Fair  Germany. 2011
Not A CAR  Los Angeles Art Organisation (LAAO)  2011.
The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge.  Berlin Germany. 2011
Exit Art Gallery The New Underground  New York NY. 2010
WNDX  Winnipeg, Canada  2010
Video DUMBO  Brooklyn NY 2010
International Digital Art Festival  Sofia Bulgaria 2010
Tweak 2010 Limerick Ireland. 
Whitechapel Gallery, Alphaville London

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TORSO 2012
Video + Sound Design Maria Niro

A visual poem about individual responsibility and collective consumption.

Screenings:
New Filmmakers Series Anthology Film Archives NYC 2012
The 7th  Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012

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WHITELIGHT Lincoln Center Project 2011, 2011-2012
Video Maria Niro
Series of art videos for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts White Light Festival.

Click on View Trailer to see work.

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Waiting (Off My Chest) 2011
Video + Sound Design Maria Niro
Poem Waiting by Elisabeth Warren

An anonymous woman voices her angst on the conundrum of responsibility for the termination of one’s own parent’s life.

Screenings: River to River Festival New York NY 2011
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Amerika Reflect  (2012) 
Video + Sound  Maria Niro

A short film about the the voiceless disenfranchised in America.

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Sleeping Woman (2012) (with Dante's Canto I)
Video + Sound  Maria Niro

An abstract meditation on Dante's Canto I, taking place inside a circle.

Screenings: Filmmakers' Coop and Millennium Benefit Show
Anthology Film Archives NYC 2012

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The Real Leo Bloom (2012)
Video + Sound  Maria Niro

A self-possessed character wandering about town on a journey of introspection, a James Joyce Ulysses in the 21st Century.
 
Screenings: 17 Days Group Exhibition  Gwen Frostic School of Art  Western Michigan University  Feb-March 2013
Alfred State College Kalamazoo Michigan Fall 2013

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Lost Signals Drifting Satellites 2012
Video Maria Niro
Sound from Lost Signals Drifting Satellites by Annie Gosfield

A strange world filled with complex, sublime,  and timeless urban landscapes that delves into a third dimension.

Screenings: The 8th  Berlin International Directors Lounge 2012

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Lost Heads (Counterfeit Sex Series) 2011
Photo+Video+Sound Design Maria Niro

Vintage mannequins on displays come to life and speak their minds. Part of the Counterfeit Sex Series. 

Screenings: Festival of the New Latin American Cinema  Havana CUBA 2011. 
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Paradox of the Absurd 2012
Video + Sound Design Maria Niro

An inverted look at the holiday windows on fifth avenue reveals the truth behind the window displays. 

Screenings: The Forgotten Film Gallery Mojave Desert Nevada Gallery 2012

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Fast Cut Chase Dream 2011
Video + Sound Maria Niro

With amnesiac like prose, the protagonist describes a near death experience.

Screenings: River to River Festival  New York NY 2011
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