KAT LEE
HORNSTEIN
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ODE 2 GREEN SCREEN
Producer, Performer, Choregrapher, Designer collaboration with TRLLM (Jak Ritger & K8 Howl)
FULL VIDEO // ARTIST STATEMENT // SOUNDTRACK // ON-SET PHOTOGRAPHY
( Tier 4 International scholarship film winner )
Ode to Green Screen is a buoyant timeline of ideas that showcases the joyful process of movement, making, and being — as well as the value of imperfection in art.
We spend endless hours trying to improve our creations, smoothing our the jagged edges, wearing down the shine.
In response to this, Ode to Green Screen exploits rather than erases any “errors.” Thus the ultimate culprit of “bad effects”, the green screen, served as our celebrated subject.
Ode to Green Screen was produced in collaboration with Boston’s Video/Animation studio TRLLM (Jak Ritger & K8 Howl) and won a Tier 4 International Student Scholarship in 2017.
FULL VIDEO
Ode to Green Screen from Kat Lee Hornstein on Vimeo.
Artist’s Statement:
“Our world is composed of an organized, chaotic dance on a microscopic level. Even a metal signpost, rooted in cement and rusted into stasis, is made of countless active and vibrating atoms.
When we blink, when we think, when we breath, our muscles are working together in a choreographed masterpiece. Our ability to recognize and interpret gesture as a visual language is remarkable, and should be celebrated.
We should make effort to break from our usual behavior once and awhile. Move freely, move strangely.
Rediscover your own form as a medium.
Because, motion inherently acknowledges time itself.
In this way, to move is to know you are alive. It is a gift. We could all use a reminder.”
“Our world is composed of an organized, chaotic dance on a microscopic level. Even a metal signpost, rooted in cement and rusted into stasis, is made of countless active and vibrating atoms.
When we blink, when we think, when we breath, our muscles are working together in a choreographed masterpiece. Our ability to recognize and interpret gesture as a visual language is remarkable, and should be celebrated.
We should make effort to break from our usual behavior once and awhile. Move freely, move strangely.
Rediscover your own form as a medium.
Because, motion inherently acknowledges time itself.
In this way, to move is to know you are alive. It is a gift. We could all use a reminder.”
Soundtrack
Serving as soundtrack for the piece is "Hungry Ghost" by STRFKR, with an introductory audio clip of an Alan Watts lecture. He states:
"If you are aware of a state which you call 'is,'
Or reality, or life, this implies another state...
called 'isn't.'
Or illusion, or unreality, or nothingness, or death.
There it is, you can't know one without the other
And so, as to make life poignant
It's always got to come to an end.
"If you are aware of a state which you call 'is,'
Or reality, or life, this implies another state...
called 'isn't.'
Or illusion, or unreality, or nothingness, or death.
There it is, you can't know one without the other
And so, as to make life poignant
It's always got to come to an end.
That is exactly, don't you see, what makes it lively
Liveliness is change, is motion
And motion is going 'nnnnnnneeeeeaaw!' like this.
See, they fall out!
You can see you are always at the place where you always are.
Only, it keeps appearing to change."
These words serve to bolster the purpose and mood of this piece.
Liveliness is change, is motion
And motion is going 'nnnnnnneeeeeaaw!' like this.
See, they fall out!
You can see you are always at the place where you always are.
Only, it keeps appearing to change."
These words serve to bolster the purpose and mood of this piece.
KAT LEE
HORNSTEIN
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