Category: Sunrise

Íslenska is a journey through the the alien landscape and unique light of Iceland. Filmed over the course of a month in October 2014 throughout the country, the film is meant to feel as if you are experiencing the country firsthand…from its striking silence and desolate but beautiful terrain, to light that feels like it belongs in another world. My intention was to capture the feeling of traveling around Iceland, but in an almost dream-like fashion, exaggerating the details that make the country such a special place. It’s a place you can get lost in, in the best possible way. – IG

ilangutin.com

Airing throughout the High Noon program, April 19-May 10, 2015 

Instant Calm was created using footage from an instructional meditation video sourced in a thrift store. The video is purposefully edited to remove all instruction or speech rendering its original purpose defunct. This video explores notions of self help cultures enacted through leisure activities, and exposes the seemingly innocuous site of leisure as the ultimate performance of human desire for freedom and escape from the constraints of contemporary life. This video was first shown as part of a multiscreen installation for Stephanie Houghs debut solo exhibition “In Pursuit of Leisure” curated by PLUCK PROJECTS at C.I.T Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork City, Ireland. OCT/NOV 2014. – SH

stephaniehough.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Fabric scrims, sunlight and snowlight commingle as rhythmic cutting produces constellation-like animations. Using a combination of these stop-motion animations and video, Aurora, one in a series of three short works, acts like lunar abstractions or blind spots. – DC

danacarter.com
vimeo.com/user18670151

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Within is a film that sustains a complex condition: keeping the inner world alive as the camera looks “out” upon the world. The film, edited mainly in-camera, dives into an interior that drifts increasingly internally, seeking a sort of cave-like milieu that dissolves into abstraction (forms seen in the dark, lacking firm definition, confusing both scales and distances), and then employs real-time complications to bring this internally-directed way of feeling space along with us as it moves into the outside world, or is it an imagined outer world? – RT

www.roberttoddfilms.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Studio Sunset

Sunset fading into blue twilight from the window of my studio in Dawson City, YT.

Sunrise Chart

A chart of Sunrise and Sunset times for Dawson City, YT throughout the year.

Yukon Radio

A window view of a sunset with live sound from CHON-FM, Yukon’s Northern Native Radio Station.

vimeo.com/ericdwatts

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

If we could touch like the sun
so as not to forget
to be transfixed, mesmerized by the daily glow
of our existence
to consider staring at the horizon
as long as a screen —
I’m curious,
when did we stop craning our necks
to see it?

(A History of Staring at Fires, 2015)

The Sky navigates through the visual language of sublime archetypes as curated by Google images: The Sky, The Clouds, Space, The Horizon, The Sunset, Paradise. Using the Google search as a metaphor for the search for meaning in the infinite, the cosmic, and the intangible, I examine how the history of this pursuit has been absorbed through images in a contemporary realm.  The narration that accompanies the video recites the Dictionary.com definitions of these tropes, while occasional, personal appendages disrupt the mediated immersion and consider the shared sentiment of contemplating the unknown. – ERW

www.eileenrae.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Pieces of time that we taped on the hills consists of footage and field recordings from the olive groves of Selassia, a village outside of Sparta, Greece. The project was created during the Koumaria Residency in October 2014. With thanks to Medea Electronique. – AM

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Eight dancers, now in their eighties, continue to dance. Beginning as suburban housewives in 1950s Connecticut, each were swayed to join a community dance ensemble later to be led by Charles Weidman and other prominent modern dancers of the time. Some were professional level dancers, others were just curious. Regardless of ability, regardless of intent, this evolving group of women created an engaging ensemble that extended past the stage, into their lives. A rendering of the intersections of motherhood, marriage, and movement, the film reflects on the delicate balance of their lives as homemakers and dancers. – LB

laurabouza.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Take Off (2012) is a Snap Motion Re-Animation constructed from photographs pulled solely from the online public domain archives of NASA. The photos I selected represent all of the successful Space Shuttle launches from 1981 to 2011. What interested me about these images was how much I remember each launch from all the media coverage but how little I know about the specific tasks each Shuttle carried out. Not only has space travel been a striking achievement of human ingenuity but the resulting imagery from each mission take off has a rich potency in and of itself.   – CCJ

cassandracjones.com

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015 

Time Perception refers to one’s subjective experience of time, which is measured by one’s own notion of the duration of the indefinite and continuous unfolding of events rather then real time. It reflects about how our perception of time is conditioned by our form of living and surroundings environment.

This video has a duration of 24 minutes. It is composed by 12 sunrise and 12 sunsets filmed during a period of 1 year at Miami, Florida. Each 1 minute sunrise and sunset correspond to one month of the year. The dialogues are the voice recording of 12 participants everyday’s life. Each of them compiled into 2 minutes, corresponding with one sunrise and one sunset. –SD

silvana@demikosart.org

Airing throughout the Sunrise program, April 1-19, 2015