Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) 2023
single channel experimental video art
Duration: 00:02:00. No dialogue, sound, color
Distribution: Groupe Intervention Vidéo
Trailer
կաթ-կաթ
պատերին նստած
լռություն
silence
drop by drop
sitting on the walls
“Silence IV” (Լռության կաթիլային) is a short video poem, shot entirely on cellphone. The video was created in April 2023, during the nine-month blockade of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Between the alarming and scary news coming from home, and the calm reality of every-day life abroad, I was trying to make sense of my two realities through art. Playing with lights on interior surfaces I’m working through the conflicts between my immediate surroundings and split identity.
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“Silence IV” was made after “A Peculiar Place i.” Both works were shot on cellphone, and are an exploration/meditation on a split identity of the artist (immigration, immediate surrounding, internal space). While “A Peculiar Place i.” is incorporating a play of sunlight and a flashlight, “Silence IV” is a step inward, presenting the viewer with various interior surfaces under the spotlight of a flashlight, playing and distorting their habitual meanings.
Full credits:
Concept, montage, sound design, video editing – Anna Grigorian
SCREENINGS
2024 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – Light Matter Festival Co-Founder & Curator: James Hansen. November-December 2024, Alfred, NY and Buenos Aires, Argentina
2024 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – International Video Poetry Festival, 11th edition. April 2024, Athens, Greece
2024 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – Bronx World Film Winter Cycle 13th Edition, New York City, USA. Founder, Curator and Executive Director: Walter Krochmal. Invited work for the 13th edition of the festival. January 2024
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – : nodoCCS : The 9th edition of Festival Video nodoCCS, Caracas, Venezuela. Cofounder and Creative Director: Maria Bilbao·Herrera. Official Selection. December 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – FEDAXV 2023 10th Valdivia Experimental Audiovisual Design Festival, Festival director: Roberto de la Parra. Valdivia, Chile, November 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – 5th Fotogenia, International Filmpoetry, And Divergent Narratives Festival, Festival director: Christian Pacheco-Cámara Mexico. November 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – Strangloscope Film Festival, Festivals directors and curators: Cláudia Cárdenas, Rafael Strangloscópico Itajaí, Santa Catarina, Brazil. October 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – 13th BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival. Festival Director: Txema Agiriano Bilbao, Spain. October 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – 26th annual Antimatter [Media Art], Curators: Deborah de Boer, festival director: Todd Eacrett, Victoria, BC, Canada. October 2023
2023 Silence IV (Լռության կաթիլային) – 32nd Edition of VIDÉOS DE FEMMES DANS LE PARC (VFP) curated by Anne Golden and Véronica Sedano Alvarez; Le Groupe Intervention Vidéo (GIV), Montreal, Canada. October 2023