Two be/ Video Art/ Experimental

  • Tonia Ainot

Description: "Two be/end/to be" is a synthesis of cell phone and camera (Canon X10 Full HD 1080p) videos. A three year video collection (2015-18) The films focus on how public/personal life and death are related through some extracts that describe environments from each situation. Events are presented to happen in parallel time; recorded in the metro, on the street, in bus stops, in the cemetery and in other interiors (bar, apartment). The documentary refers to the social and political environment with technical, aesthetic, ideological and political commentary. Invited to take part as a potential hero in conditions and situations both familiar and paradoxical to her/his daily reality the viewer, perceives a personal meaning. The paradox of life is shown through “everyday heroes”, the people from the next door, who are not recorded in history because they are indifferent to it. But they are the ones who shape it. What is not legitimized as a History can be transfigured as documentary art, thus expressing its daily and repetitive history. "... this representation of reality is too close to the truth, because it touches the inner feelings of people and the conditions of their lives, to the point that it becomes annoying for exactly the same reason." Krzysztof Kieślowski

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    Ionian University

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