OPEN CALL!! ROLLING SUBMISSION
04.22–06.30 /2020
This Undercurrent art project invites reflection about this extraordinary situation. As the world looks quiet and unchanging under social distancing, COVIDEO-19 NOTES presents a living diary of curated video works periodically released on this platform.
PLEASE SUBMIT TO THIS OPEN CALL BY FILLING OUT THE SUBMISSION FORM
COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.22.20
JOEY GONNELLA /Returning /2020
Surrealist montage film experiment.
/Video duration 1:50 min
/joeygonnella.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.25.20
DEE HOOD + GLOBAL ARTISTS /Chant for A
Pandemic /2020
Chant for a Pandemic is a short, experimental film, made by collaborators across the globe in response to the Covid 19 pandemic. Curated and edited by American experimental filmmaker, Dee Hood, the whole thing was shot and put together in less than two weeks.
Artists around the world are feeling a need to reflect and react to this new, fast changing, almost post-apocalyptic looking world with immediacy, and this is one early response created by a group of individuals who have mostly never met in real life but do have a shared vision and a passion for expression. We feel that video art and experimental approaches can shine a light on those areas of life which more traditional art forms or reportage cannot, getting deeper into those subconscious, dreamlike or even nightmarish feelings and sensations that we all experience but do not always acknowledge. -Dee Hood
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Curated and Edited by Dee Hood
Music by Tushar Waghela
Chant written by Finn Harvor - Singing by Finn Harvor & various artists
Filmmakers:
Finn Harvor (Seoul, Korea), Maria Felix Korporal (Berlin, Germany), Tushar Waghela (Durg, India), Muriel Paraboni (Milan, Italy), Sandra Bouguerch (Bolton, UK), Lisi Prada (Leon, Spain), Eija Temiseva (Espoo, Finland), Ian Gibbins (Adelaide, South Australia), Jutta Pryor (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia), Sarah Bliss (Montague, Mass, USA), Darko Duilo (Split, Croatia), Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Lincoln, Nebraska, USA), Erick Tapia (Mexico City, Mexico), Lori Ersolmaz (Naples, Florida, USA), Avant Kinema / Sarahjane Swan & Roger Simian (Scottish Borders, Scotland), Lino Mocerino (Foggia, Italy), Francesca Giuliani (Lamis, Italy), Luis Carlos Rodriguez (Spain), Dee Hood (USA), Willow Morgan (Ruskin, Florida, USA).
/Video duration 5:08 min
/www.deehood.net/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.27.20
LINDA LOH /Orb 1 2020
Sound: The Eternal Choir, Glorious Colours, 1993, courtesy of Listening Earth. /listeningearth.com/
/Video duration 6:49 min
/lindaloh.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /04.30.20
CIPRIANO ORTEGA /Apocalypse Now?
(updated) /2020
I’ve always been a fan of Francis Ford Coppola's film “Apocalypse Now.” Adapted from the novel “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad. I think we are in a time much like when this film was produced. The End by The Doors drones on in the background. Jim’s father was one of the top ranking officers who started the Vietnam war. I find the contrast between father in son quite interesting. Marlon Brando’s appearance in this film really struck a chord in me as well.
“He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision—he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror! - Cipriano Ortega
/Video duration 2:08 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.04.20
WHEELER WINSTON DIXON /Pandemic /2020
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them. – Nathan Wolfe
This video was created using footage and soundtracks in the Public Domain, or released as CC0 Public Domain materials, and is made entirely from recycled, repurposed, and refashioned images and sounds.
/Video duration 2:08 min
/wheelerwinstondixon/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.06.20
ROSA LACAVALLA /Vorrei girare il cielo come
le rondini /I Would Like To Twirl In The Sky As
The Swallows /2020
They fly like the swallows that bring a surreal spring, come to announce that we will no longer be the same. And upon their arrival, after more than a month waiting by our windows, we are pervaded by a sense of acceptance of our individual and human condition. -Rosa Lacavalla
Video © Rosa Lacavalla. Music © Hernan Paulitti
/Video duration 4:13 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.12.20
JERRY CHAN /The Pace Of Mind + Uncertain
State Of Mind + Homesick /2020
3 short video segments telling one story. The Pace of Mind - is what my mind is like recently. Uncertain State Of Mind - I am imagining how my mind is moving on. Homesick - is a depiction of the feeling about quarantine and distance between people.
I work with drawing, animation, and installation. I juxtapose incongruous elements to articulate absurdities and some ridiculous incidents happening in politics and life. Influenced by some unconventional comics with alternative usage of symbols and multiple images, I create non-linear narratives with multiple scenarios. I believe every incident does have a causal relationship. This notion has led me to be interested in constructing subtle connections between peripherally irrelevant circumstances. As a Hong Kong artist living in New York. I have a strong sensation upon the tough circumstances within and beyond politics. I recently create multiple scenarios to depict the state of mind and the mixed feelings upon these issues. -Jerry Chan
/Video duration 00:50 min
/jerryccn.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.14.20
ZILVINAS KEMPINAS /113TH STREET /2020
6 minutes. Audio recording.
Best experienced with High-End headphones.
/zilvinaskempinas.com/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.16.20
ANDREA GARCIA VASQUEZ /Corona Clip 2:
Unrest & Staying Inside /2020
A video artistically showing my reaction to the new adjustments brought upon by COVID. This is video 2 of a series of 7 videos I have made while in quarantine in Leipzig, Germany. In this video Corona Clip 2: Unrest & Staying Inside, I began looking at live streamed street cams of New York City. At this time, I was read the news every morning and night hoping there would be a foreseeable end to this drastic transformation of every day life. I recorded myself reading segments of news articles wearing my pajamas and a nice blouse. The new business casual. This video captures my own personal anxiety and worry as I mentally and emotionally juggle between the situation in the two places I call home- Europe and USA. -Andrea Garcia Vasquez
Outsourced Videos: Youtube Street Cams from Amsterdam, Timesquare, Santa Monica Pier, and Key West. Sound - artist’s property. Text - a mixture of psychology and news reports regarding COVID.
/Video duration 2:21 min
/andreagarciavasquez/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.18.20
VILIUS JUOZAPAS VINGRAS /Spiders /2020
Life (and death) of the initially unnoticed quarantine neighbor - the spider. - Vilius Vingras
/Video duration: 04:06 min
/viliusvingras/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.20.20
ERICA SCHREINER /Quarantine /2020
MATURE! This film has no dialog and contains adult content. Password: 2020
There is no fruit inside the rinds or eggs inside the shells, and the flowers are dead. Counting the days, each day hardly differs from the next. We find, what is inside provides the greatest sustenance. -Erica Schreiner
/Video duration: 00:8 min
/ericaschreiner/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.22.20
TYPE WITHOUT THINKING TYPE WITHOUT
THINKING /Momo Friends /2020
Apparently, we become numb during self-quarantine
Finally, spring comes to New York City
Fortunately, we gain a chance to meet each other physically
Soon, the Tibetan food restaurant reopened
Definitely, we need sunshine and food eventually not cooked by ourselves
Seriously, we wash our hands then enjoy momo
Shortly, we do a special one-day life recording
Happily, we memorize how loud we laugh together again
/Video by Ruisheng Zhong (@spongemermer)
/Music by Xiao Xu (@plasticpeco)
Special Thanks to Shawn Yang
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.24.20
VIKA KARACIUBA /7 seconds /2020
Short. Experimental Film.
/Video duration 00:7 seconds
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.25.20
YUNA KIM /About Power /2020
YUNA KIM /Run /2020
YUNA KIM / I wish and wish and… /2020
When I keep staring at something over and over, I come up with finding that there are invisible things, like desire, anger, nostalgia, joy, or pleasure, hidden behind the side. Through looped GIF works, I depict the moments when I encounter new thoughts. -Yuna Kim
/yunakim.art/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.27.20
GWENDOLYN AUDREY FOSTER /Mass for Shut-
ins /2020
Hand-painted 16mm film. Direct animation. 16mm hand-scratched, hand-crafted, and hand-painted and collaged film leader.
A fever dream. An infinitely morphing kaleidoscopic stained glass window; bells that remind me of the sounds of Amsterdam, my second home after New York City. Frantic REM sleep kicks in around 5 minutes...
Mass for Shut-ins is a brief cine-poem for art, light, and music made in the darkness of the plague time. A pandemic film made in the artist's kitchen sink under quarantine, Spring 2020.” -Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
/Music: Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
/Video duration 07:54 min
/gwendolynaudreyfoster/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /05.29.20
MOACIR P. DE SÁ PEREIRA /Journull /2020
LALA DRONA /The Like Me /2020
As if social media were a cosmic invader on the human species, the video begins with a view of Earth from outer space, and lands in Lala Drona’s home city, Paris, France. The viewer finds the artist underground, inside an air shaft. Alone, and illuminated only by the light of her phone, she begins to voice opinions and expressions that have become all too familiar to anyone growing up post-millennial.
The performance art video “The Like Me” delves into the isolating effects of social media through its guise of connection. This video experience examines the normalized anxiety we feel on a daily basis.- Lala Drona
/Video duration 3:28 min
/laladrona/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.10.20
PIERRE AJAVON /Covid-19 Incident /2020
Spring 2020, dreamlike stroll in a Covid-19 era. -Pierre Ajavon
/Video duration 02:34 min
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.12.20
ENOH LIENEMANN /Diary of A Pandemic /2020
In my experimental film I document the relaxed mood in NYC and my fears at the same time in Germany.
At the end of February a huge amount of people were already infected with Covid-19 in NYC, without being aware of it.
The sounds of New York are taken between February 22 and 29, 2020.
In Germany I began to become more and more afraid to go out and to meet up with my friends. We were already discussing the virus and the virus started to change our lives. -Enoh Lienemann
/Video duration 05:40 min
/enoh-lienemann/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.15.20
CHUN WANG /One Day (COVID-19 Version)
/2020
Portrait of an emotionally stormy day in self-quarantine under the worldwide COVID-19's lockdown order. Feelings in the pandemic can be: disrupted, insecure, upended, disoriented, restricted, deprived, groundless, afloat, overwhelmed, worried, furious, traumatic. We are all constantly moving between hopes and despairs. -Chun Wang
/Starred / Filmed by Chun Wang
/Sound: The Newton Brothers <Grandpa>, Chun Wang, found audio from news
/Video duration 04:19 min
/chunwang/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.18.20
BILI REGEV /All Creatures Sanctuary /2020
Where can we all go when we feel overwhelmed. A computer point of view of the Western-Wall reveals a poetic moment. A meeting point of human-animal-computer.
A computer drawing of prayer could demonstrate how our species is viewed from another intelligence's perspective. -Bili Regev
/Video duration 04:23
/biliregev/
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COVIDEO-19 NOTES /06.22.20
MORAN BEEN-NOON /Trip Outside /2020
Trip Outside was created during C-19 Lockdown period in Ireland. The animation is an “Isolation Dance” in the artists’ mind, visiting imaginary places inside their home.-Moran Been-noon
/Animation and editing: Moran Been-noon
/Music: Dave Murphy
/Video duration 02:15 min
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