Posted on 02 December 2011 by brittanystanley
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VA.N: In your bio, you mention treating each frame in your films as a freestanding work of art. Would you say your aesthetic is influenced by your interest in drawing and painting?

ND: Yes, I was big on the surrealist style when it came to my paintings. Got very intimate with expressing things through symbol and this has carried over into my motion work. Also, I’m used to taking a great deal of time on what could by a 10 sec. shot, same as in painting.

VA.N: Yeah, that is definitely apparent in your work- just like the surrealists, your film/video work has a lucid dream-like quality to it. I notice, beside the “dog” motif, you invoke moon symbology a lot. I guess coincidental with the fact that you grew up partly in a place called “Half-Moon Bay”. It’s like the moon is this taunting presence in Dogmatique.

ND: Ha ha! Yes, very much so, the Moon takes a big role in HMB, nature is very strong out there and it’s no Miami beach… more harsh, foggy, depressing, and beautiful. The moon is in a great deal of my work, and for me it has been sort of a taunting force and I, in my life am lead in strange directions trying to find my way.

read full interview at http://blog.videoart.net/?p=1863

 

DOGMATIQUE will be screening at Video Art & Experimental Film Festival, Tribeca Cinemas in December.

I have never been to New York and cannot make this screening myself, but it pleases me in a vicarious sort of way that Peter Bones will be enjoying the attention his little dog heart deserves.

link: http://festival.videoart.net/index.php 

 

 

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Screening NOW at the luggage store projection exhibition

Where: 1007 Market Street

When: October 1-31, 2011, dusk through dawn

The ARTery Project’s Fall Line Up of Events:

http://sfartscommission.org/artery/2011/09/projection-series-nara-denning/

 

 

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Great couple of sold out shows.  Many thanks to Artists Television Access, The Classical Revolution & Mr. Odom & the Odom Poles for helping to make this show a success.  And many, many thanks to the folks who came out in support.  

I recieved a lot of good feed back and critique, which has me redefining my process.  I think, in the future,  I will inhabit only one world at a time instead of juggling realms, it was a split-personality experience.  

 

stills courtesy Emi Stanley 

Honored to be included in the first ShinyArt iPad video art gallery  - still free for the month of September: