Phuzzy4242 wrote: Fri Apr 24, 2020 11:11 pm
The "artist" sure seems to have a high opinion of herself - she's naked in nearly every one of her films, and she's not exactly good-looking. I guess I'm not sophisticated enough to appreciate this kind of artsy fartsy stuff.
Lucy (2003) 720p.mp4
Just wondering, who's the artist and what are his/her other films?
Night457 wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 12:32 pm
Does anyone have any filmmaker info? It has no credits, and with the "artist" disappeared from VimeUhOh I am at a loss.
mexlink wrote: Thu Jul 13, 2023 2:42 pm
Just wondering, who's the artist and what are his/her other films?
LUCY
single channel video, 2003
duration 33’, on view videoframe
thanks to Anais Bollansee
installationview Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem 2005
Note: the original duration is 33 MINUTES!!!
Synopsis:
Spoiler:
LUCY was found in Ethiopia. She ‘s considered to be the eldest human being ever discovered. She was born about 3,5 million years ago. In the video “LUCY”, A young girl lays in a pink bed together with a pink felt doll. The girl is about ten, eleven years old. The doll has the same size and physionomy as the girl has. It may be her alter ego, or it may be the girl that soon will be a woman, Or maybe it’s just the last doll a mother sewed for her daughter. The light through the video evolves from sunlight until late evening light. The contact between the girl and her doll is fading away slowly. There are at least two fragile images to be seen: the one of a growing up girl, and the one of a childhood icon. (Roland Patteeuw, Locus Loppem 2005)
About the artist:
(text only, did not copy links)
Spoiler:
Marie Julia Bollansée’s work is about people, about their lives and deaths and about the quest in the no man’s land in between. The physical is a constant factor in Ms. Bollansée’s videos and performances, as she was trained as a classic sculptor. Ms. Bollansée’s dramatic power of observation is reflected in her work. She frequently plays the role of observer, translating age-old human themes into images that we can all relate to. Her performances bring the everyday but often hidden forces into the light. Her installations create fields of tension between primary materiality, poetry, and aesthetic images. She is fascinated by the chemical reactions caused by unexpected interactions and collaborations. “I try to detect the chemistry between people and to formulate this in my work so that viewers become more aware of their humanity. I want to expand the frontiers of the perceptible. I’m convinced that people urgently need to see and understand the essential, but too often invisible, motives and sources in today’s society.”
Her work was selected by the Jackson Pollock Foundation in 2000. It was on view at several venues in Belgium and the Netherlands, and a.o. in Moscow, Istanbul, Vladivostok, Dresden, Mumbai, Paris, Kathmandu, Tokyo. The installation ROBOT FACTORY (November 2016) was acquired by M HKA, Museum Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, and added to the permanent collection of the museum.
You can find a curriculum vitae here
You can contact the artist by email.
Galerie Vrijdag in Antwerp represents Marie Julia Bollansée
I remember reading the above information when the Vimeo link was still live, a few years ago. It took multiple screenshots of the video until one of them triggered a result for the Google Image (Google Lens) search.
LUCY
single channel video, 2003
duration 33’, on view videoframe
thanks to Anais Bollansee
installationview Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem 2005
Note: the original duration is 33 MINUTES!!!
33 minutes. Wow! Can anyone find that version?
I did discover that (not surprisingly) the artist used her own daughter Anaïs Bollansée in the video. I can't find anything else about the girl - who would be around 30 now. No IMDb profile or publicly accessible Instagram account I can say is her. So no career in show business and no further film work, which is too bad.
I'll have to spend some time looking to see if the long version was ever out there and might be available. However this could easily be one of those shorts that did the festival circuit and has been gathering dust ever since.
