Et in Arcadia Ego (There is Death even in Utopia) (2010) from Robyn Woolston on Vimeo.
Genre: Artists Film and Video
Screened:
- Aesthetica Short Film Festival / Official Programme Selection (2011)
- RUSHES Short Film Festival / T E N D E R P I X E L G A L L E R Y, London (2010)
-'RIPOSTE: A POST EXCHANGE' as part of 'GLOBAL STUDIO':
- Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (04-06/10)
- Maerz Arts Association, Linz, Austria (07-09/10)
Synopsis: Fifty photographs taken at head height, systematically captured: Her face/the space/her face/the space...then looped and layered, the images form a 'landscape' that transposes the space of the face and embeds it within the architecture of the environment so it mirrors, ghosts and repeats like death itself.
Audience Response:
'Amazing, frenetic, pinching, disturbing, completely engaging 1min20secs; I get it, I get it'
'Strong, bold and thought provoking work'
'It makes me think of my birth and being in the womb'
'Evocative, emotional, Et in Arcadia Ego is immediately captivating'