dwarfs the sea 2009
dwarfs the sea is an experimental video composed of a series of found photographs and imagined texts written about the subjects of the video.
Small 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 formalist writing moves the listener from intimacy to universalism and back again, swaying gently to and fro like the rocking of a ship.
James Glisson, at ArtForum wrote "In dwarfs the sea, black-and-white photographs of crew members appear and the digital narrator gives snippets of their lives: “Oh him, he had problems sleeping,” or, regarding a ship’s navigator, “Barely awake, he would begin an internal dialogue of failure.” Holding saccharine melodrama at bay, the affectless and antiseptic tone paradoxically grants each photograph and story a tinge of emotional identification."
A small bit of this piece can be viewed at VDB: http://www.vdb.org/titles/dwarfs-sea
a still from dwarfs the seaA still from the video dwarfs the sea. A series of still photographs or men and imagined biographies told through a disembodied voice.
dwarfs the sea and other videos written about at artforum
dwarfs the sea, stillA still from the video dwarfs the sea. A series of still photographs or men and imagined biographies told through a disembodied voice.
