Sweet Things
A video about transient materialism filled with desire and decline in urban space.
38 min. 2002
Bijli, heart of a drag queen
Bijli/ Mohammed Fayyaz is a dear friend and drag queen from Pakistan who sought asylum on grounds of sexual orientation. An accomplished performer, Bijli often dances in public spaces; however this video offers the viewer a very intimate and personal performance of a traditional folk song about love and longing. Marvin Sewell composed original music for this piece.
2.5mins 2006
Three Muses
Three Muses was created entirely in Brooklyn, New York. It was produced in collaboration with a musician (Marvin Sewell) and three singers of Indian (Samita Sinha), Pakistani (Bijli) and Nepali (Tenzin Dolker) origin. I worked out tonal ranges and songs with the singers then gave a composer Marvin Sewell a brief about the ideas behind the piece and a video recording of their renditions. He composed the soundtrack; which I then treated visually. The ensuing result of our process is an ambient video piece, which combines my interests in spirituality, feminist and identity issues, whist engaging formal art historical dialogues about painting and landscape, abstraction and representation, hi and low brow, written, performative and visual art.
2006
Faith, Hope and Greenland
Faith, Hope and Greenland, 2009
30 min.
Faith, Hope and Greenland is a visual and poetic journey into the very hearts of the people of Greenland. Told in a natural, honest and non-accusative manner, its four main protagonists advise the viewer on the underbelly of colonisation, its effects on an ancient, nomadic culture and on the individual mind.
IF …
IF… – 1998 – video – Scotland (GB) 5 mn 50
“What if my right hand didn’t know what my left hand is doing.”
This quotation from Bill Viola instantly inspired me . I wanted to make a video
where I could explore my dyslexia abilities. It’s synchronised on a two screens
video installation. The video which is presented here is a re – assembled
version which shows the two screens.
I MOTION
I MOTION Rozenn Nobilet / UK 1995 7′
A picture with rhythm. It explores the cinematic mechanism through the body language leading to the circle of life. This succession of frames is close to the portrait art. Within a few minutes, Rozenn Nobilet, takes us to the origins of cinema, the cinematic art. This short movie reminds us the chronophotography of Muybridge and the praxinoscope of Emile Raynaud, the motion capturing devise that enabled the birth of cinema. « I MOTION » can already join the league of experimental cinema as a classic.
« A bang, with Rozenn Nobilet’s film “I Motion.” »
David Finkelstein _Film Threat – September 2005
“I-Motion by Rozenn Nobilet is a rhythmic work that puts in parallel the body and the art forms of cinema.”
Joel S.Bachard_I Beam.net – May 2005
ECHOES by Ivalo Frank – selected for the Iranian Documentary Film Festival 2011
ECHOES by Ivalo Frank is a rhytmic documentary about abandoned places, sounds and people. Recorded on various locations in east Greenland. Supported by Greenland’s Self Government og Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq. Documentary, 26 min. Selected for the Iranian Documentary Film Festival February, 19th in Malmö, Sweden.
ECHOES by Ivalo Frank selected for Kiel Film Festival 2011
ECHOES is a film about the foreign presence in Greenland, about abandoned airbases and radar stations. It’s also a love story between two people who have met in the stunning landscape of history, in the sounds of music. Documentary, 26 min. Selected for Kiel Film Festival, 8th – 10th April 2011