sweet like pipi longstocking

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.."