Stephanie Barber is associated with: The Enlightenment
Yon and Payola find themselves in a Victorian conservatory. They are companionable, disoriented and petulant––they whip wildly through these disembodied states. Payola reads an excerpt of their considerable tome on the age of enlightenment to Yon. Payo ...
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The horizon, where the sky and the earth meet, is always elsewhere, a promised place where these two elements come together. a metaphor, an orienting, a promise of transition, change, transcendence. a place where the corporeal and spiritual meet, or are cl ...
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Great soprano Leontyne Price attempts to maintain her composure on stage as she receives adoration from her audience at her 1985 farewell opera. ...
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A brief, poetic 16mm film on a simple sculptural action. What becomes apparent is the humor possible in material interactions and the tender and sometimes melodramatic symbolism of cut flowers. What begins as a reverence for natural beauty ends up pointing ...
Watch NowAn experimental video composed of found photographs, original text and sound art, balancing between an essay film and poem. ...
Watch NowAn expanded text piece which considers human's press against (alienation from?) the natural world. An installation utilizing words as sculptural elements to contemplate the morphological state of language and nature. the way each need endlessly change and ...
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A film poem thinking about the physics of sound, the need sound has to vibrate and bounce off a molecule or atom to return to our ears; thinking about this physical property as a metaphor for spirituality or love. ...
Watch NowIn The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of animal cries and whines in jungle flora our heroine has lived for 1, 612 days deep in an unnamed jungle. Thi ...
Watch NowWhat goes when the body goes? How many parents have we got stacked upon us into eternity like ladders to the afterlife? ...
Watch Now"All day this strange pilot had flown his antique aeroplane over the abandoned space center, a frantic machine lost in the silence... ...
Watch Nowof The One Minutes Series Healing Tool curated by Shana Moulton in 2015. ⠀ "Take some video and sound. And make a healing tool out of it! ...
Watch Now"Why is she talking like that?" A child is not Lost Horizon's most appreciative viewer. ...
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A portrait of risk and language, the experimental narrative Daredevils, presents a writer as she interviews a well-known artist and feels the reverberations of their discussion throughout her day. Visually spare, still and verbose the video constructs a me ...
Watch NowThe video hovers tentatively between therapy, documentary, poetics and mystic traipsery and ends, like all good things, in surrender to song. There is a challenge presented (the challenge to engage earnestly with the piece as it requests) to fall into the ...
Watch NowBetween June 25 and August 7 2011 Stephanie Barber moved her studio into the Baltimore Museum of Art where she created a new video each day in a central gallery open to museum visitors. The goal of this project was to create a series of short, poetic video ...
Watch NowFound footage film with a Chinese circus. The audience embraces the spectacular, theatrical elements. The appreciation is clearly mutual. Suggestive editing, inspired by avant-garde master Bruce Conner, makes the spectacle even more focused. ...
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Originally created for Milwaukee International with The Suburban's exquisite corpse video for the "No Soul For Sale" show at the Tate Modern. "The interior was delusional like any visual psyche. These interiors [...] are collaged from photos of various dom ...
Watch NowStephanie Barber plays with old found footage of a boy on a street. ...
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One friend tells another friend what she remembers from reading the Somerset Maugham novel "The Razor's Edge" ten or fifteen years ago. It is a sketchy and slanted remembering. They decide to shoot a film of this memory, a foggy tale with scant connection ...
Watch NowA playful and dark conversational study—wrapping prose poetry into the recognizable conversational form and allowing both connections and missed meanings. First the ladies visit, the image—a roving camera lovingly viewing a still image—calls up both ...
Watch NowStephanie Barber 2008 | 00:13:21 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 4:3 "how looking at what has become the skeletons of photographs is a visual lecture on aesthetic pleasure or emotion. and how being, almost entirely denied of this pleasure, o ...
Watch NowSmall biographies and musing generalizations--men's relations to each other and their lives. There is hope and loneliness, companionship and isolation and the simplest of filmic elements to contrast the complexity of human emotions. The delicacy of the for ...
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A haiku or love letter to the charm of two-dimensional images. The spectacle awaits our adoration, gives a tender intimation of collusion. ...
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CATALOG is a composition of stillness. An inversion of the spectacle. Actors are posed, recreating various photographs in surroundings unfrozen. The soundtrack is a dense tale of spaces. A photograph more mutable than an image should be. ...
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Watch NowConceptually, Stephanie Barber's short film LETTERS, NOTES is simplicity itself: found photographs hold the screen as animated texts transcribe brief notes and letters unmoored from context. And yet the elusive poignancy that emerges of this exquisite corp ...
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A mini-revolution. Wrong choices. The divorce of ethereal beauty and mystery so common in experimental films. In Stephanie Barber's films. What begins as devastatingly awkward or "tender" unfolds itself to show a deceptive, strangely rigid literary formali ...
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According to filmmaker Stephanie Barber, "This is probably the most heartbreaking film I have made." The pacing is romantic and simple, haiku-esque pauses and inclusions, with the words contrasting this poetry with their factual, disinterested narration. A ...
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METRONOME is both the most straightforward (as well as the most difficult) of Stephanie Barber's films. It is very dear to the filmmaker's heart. The soundtrack of a radio play is off-set by the intractable images of "spaces." The former seems to balance p ...
Watch NowA sonnet, the fifties family travel, through, say america, or time, a fascination with the exciting future, the image is purposefully jerky and toy-like with the casio keyboard beats a (faux, dated) take on the serial pieces to come later. The entirely is ...
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For those who find listing and repetition romantic. A near perfect structure. Three acts, an auditory red herring and classic love story. ...
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THEY INVENTED MACHINES is about colonialism, entertainment and love. The images are taken mostly on Disney World rides where one is shown facsimiles of people from far away lands. The soundtrack, a little more than half-way through, ceases its cricketing a ...
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While referencing the explorer Christopher Columbus, the film is actually a gift for filmmaker Stephanie Barber's friend, the performance artist Theresa Columbus. The short imagistic film is suggesting (or questioning) ever so gently the effects (both posi ...
Watch NowA hand-painted, heavily collaged bit of juvenilia thinking about our possessions and what can be lost. What can be retained. Whether our bodies, our self expression and our memories are intractable elements of our 'selves'. Or just what our 'selves' are wh ...
Watch NowA short trip around, like a poem or a nostalgia for what you never had or knew anything about. We pick up speed around the equator. ANGUS MUSTANG is paralleling different travels, the physicality of travel pointed to, most clearly in the soundtrack and the ...
Watch NowWOMAN STABBED TO DEATH is a short film concerned with both the apathy of human receptivity and the perverse nature of free floating paranoia so artfully ingrained in women. it is a tiny horror film, with the soundtrack skipping blithely over the literal gr ...
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