Our Armistice, Yellow as Lemons, As Birds
| OUR ARMISTICE : YELLOW AS LEMONS, AS BIRDS an artist's film in text, image, and sound |
| FORTHCOMING ON DVD IN SPRING 2010 "CATASTROPHE APOSTROPHE: A TRIO OF CURIO FILMS" (CATALYSIS PROJECTS) In this video piece undertaken in collaboration with composer Veronika Krausas, my curiosity lay in the exploration of armistice as an emotional juncture - a kinetic pivot point in time where great loss has caused a cessation of hostilities, but no one has surrendered. The story I discovered was one of longing amidst distrustfulness - armistice as a negotiated hope between adversaries. There is something painfully honest and courageously human about a truce - there are no winners, and no losers, just a conditional, tenuous, unsteady movement towards something better...perhaps even healing, or peace. On the score itself, composer Veronika Krausas invoked a passage from writer Andre Alexis that I believe also bears meaning on the idea of armistice - "There's a restlessness that sometimes pushes me out. I don't know where it comes from or what purpose it serves, but it's there behind most of the things I do." WRITER & DIRECTOR Quintan Ana Wikswo COMPOSER Veronika Krausas from her piece 5 Intermezzi for 2 guitars, 2004 EDITOR Eric N. Grush (c) Quintan Ana Wikswo, 2009 |
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