MauMau Blood Dreams 2024 follow the fairytale and fable story form, into the original, dark and primordial consciousness that brings us to our present world narrative. The first video is Moon Is A Dagger
The 2008 video series Signs, Wishes &Wonders draws on the same form to produce contemporary video fable: WhisperWish, Once Upon A Sign, The Wicked Witch Gets Her Wish.
....series in process...
https://www.youtube.com/live/c5g91jZ8xBQ. 6:30 PM EST USA - 11:30H EU
In the anti-war and vacation culture video Last Exit, the bleak, worker’s noir, 1945 Club Paradise film, released the same year Nagasaki/ Hiroshima was bombed and Hitler died, is re-mixed with poetry dialogue to become a romantic vacation advertisement that comments on perception, storytelling and propaganda. From the larger multimedia project Club Paradise: vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism and the selling of holiday 2019. Marketed vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. Only now the game pursued is a state of mind to produce a worker’s consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery. With Jeff Crouch music.
It's the last exit
meet me there
we have all night
under the moon
don't go too far
you'll pass the bar
I'll wait
by the gate
don't be late
I hate
to be alone
on a night like this
senses awake
skin tight sunburn
first day in the sea
I slept under a tree
until three
and swam again
what a memory.
Let's stay up all night
sleep until noon
the sea meets the sky
you can't tell where
the night meets eternity
you can't tell when
we'll be here again
on vacation
with friends
dancing
under the stars
swimming in the sun
having fun
feeling groovy
happy in love
moon up above
nothing to do
but sit and share with you
an incredible view
(sit and stare at you)
what a souvenir
our reverie
time free.
Memories live
someday we'll die
tonight is forever
a dream,
don't pass it,
at the last exit....
Club Paradise.
'You take paths blindly, but, guided by your beating heart, you will always find beneficial destinations. Here in the exhibition, the anonymous narrator is right at the door and draws a route. There are several stops on it. You can, between different little chapels, sit down and enjoy dreaming again. The works recover fabrics and stories, maps and photos, events that are glued together in a confusing, inverted, insoluble timeline. And all the better because you can then recover them and make sense of them. your own way.' excerpt from show text
Last Exit, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2022/03/cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch.html ...an older film, never been seen, from Club Paradise...
