its 4am. i'm about to make the drive back to ny. a little delirious, a little excited. wanted to put these up there..my notes on pipilotti's collection of video art. she surprised me with her subtle loveliness and i surprised myself with how much i liked her.
1. I'm not the girl who misses much - red lipstick,
dress, feminine hair. sped up/slowed down.
2. Sexy sad i - naked man with aggressive motions.
through forest. hands together
Common themes - sexuality, femininity, John Lennon
songs. combo black/white and color. aggression.
scratching of the video. the defeat/condescendsion of a
woman. repetitive actions. with no change. camera
movement through neighborhoods. lipsyncing songs.
layers of images. global attention. nature.
3. pipi keeps collapsing. tries to escape with no
prevail. wearing red dress. at the end, picks herself
back up. woman speaking german!? in repremanding/stern
voice in background.
4. rectangle of change in the middle. gets
smaller/larger and projects images different than its
surroundings. flowers! red dress. dives into rectangle
of change. wet. drowning. must grab on to a masculine
hand. still no help. hand begins to drown her.
5. You called me Jacky - red shirt. background moving
through neighborhoods. dresses masculine but wears
lipstick. hands on ovaries/crotch. manly movements. red
seats on train. becomes sexy woman in dress with
glasses and blonde hair.
6. pregnancy..in rectangle of change. gynecological
procedures. background = snowy scene. pure. birth.
red=blood.
7. walking on thin steel grid line with high heels.
elegant dress. elegantly man awaits her. red lipstick.
pink flower. upclose of fingerprints.. sensual/sexual.
one flower and they fall to bed. dreamlike
scene..clouds, birds chirping and exotic plants. globe
in crotch. world revolves around sex? toy baby between
toes. red watermelons. escalating speed and
intensity..organsm? flowing river..
8. Blutclip - jewels on naked woman. marks places of
sexuality. trails down to jewweelss. red spot on white
linen. red shoes. red toenail polish. blood. travels
around world/moon. linen = panties.
9. I'm a Victim of this song - still figures. returns
back to glowing light on wall. black and white
photographs. older people. lamps/lights. empty closets,
boxes. females in bathing suits on clouds.
10. naked pipilotti. camera repetitively inside her
mouth. sexual motions. camera travels around her body.
lemons and oranges. red lipstick
11. library scene. cultural things written on white
boards. zoom in - GLobal concerns. light switch off.
12. naked on ground. bright pink hair.
13. Auhjourdhi- turn comp 90 degrees. red and white
polka dot shirt. walks through grocery
store..transparent naked images of people in center of
screen. pipi keeps focus on these. like a "jungle".
jungle bird soundtrack. men stare in background. red
fruits like woman's womb.
14. windows as reflection. windows as entrapment. old
woman in open window looks down her building. young
woman stuck behind glass. pink flowers. skewed image of
beauty - woman's face pressed against glass. lullaby
song.
15. trees and harmonica at closing. color changes
softly, then back to normal. same audio tone as "i'm
not a girl.."
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