Mobile Movies Showcase – Week 67 – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome the sixty seventh showcase in our Mobile Movies Column, curated and edited by Vanessa Vox and Giulia Baita. Every two weeks Vox and Baita will curate the movie uploads to our Flickr group MobileMoviesTheAppWhisperer. They will view all the videos uploaded and comment on the ones selected.
Within this selection today, both Vox and Baita have curated the movies and Vox has written the commentary for this week, this will alternate (foreword by Joanne Carter).
All of the entries were either shot or created on mobile devices. Many congratulations to: Karen Axelrad, Poetic Medium, Judith Reisman and Tom.
Please join our growing mobile movies community. We are a very enthusiastic and supportive group of artists.
‘Chasing Dancing Black Butterflies’ by Karen Axelrad
A beautiful choreography of sketchy people silhouettes which come and go spontaneously along the pictures of a gallery. It’s a black and white photo series. Slow shutter shots assembled to a film and connected with an energetic folky dance music. For me it expresses the pleasure of looking at the interaction between audience and artwork. So Karen creates a new piece of art.
‘Impossible Journey’ by Poetic Medium
An interesting collage of two parallel scenes: a pair of moving legs in an outdoor pool (could be the reality) and the walk up in a dark and endless staircase (could be the imagination or memories). Associative thinking, expressed in images. Every journey is possible through the medium of film!
A day in the Park’ by Judith Reisman
‘Commuting Trains’ by Tom
The daily feeling of commuters. Passing trains with the well known matching sound. Once from the left, then from the right. Who is moving? The distant houses through the windows give us the answer. The filmmaker is waiting at a train station…
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Vanessa Vox and Giulia Baita
Vanessa Vox, born in Paris, studied Art History and Archaeology in Aix-en-Provence. During and after her studies she worked as a passionated dancer and choreographer. In Switzerland (2003) she began to explore the possibilities of digital art and video editing in collaboration with her husband, a swiss musician and artist. 2013 she moved to the south of France where she deepened the rich possibilities of mobile apps. It was the beginning of a new passion. Many of her short videos have been presented within our Mobile Movies Showcases. And two of them were exhibited in the first ISMA exhibition 'L'Arte è Mobile', Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Rovereto (Italy). Giulia Baita. Italian iPhonographer. She lives in a beautiful island in the Mediterranean called "Sardinia". Passionate about painting and drawing, she obtained a degree in History of Contemporary Art. Studies and supports examination of the History of Cinema at the 'University of Cagliari'. She is a professor of Italian and History and whilst in high school continued to cultivate her passion for the Art. For several years she has been and continues to be in love with Mobile Photography and Mobile Art. Some of her photos have been shown in international exhibitions and she is currently highly interested in the Mobile Movies.
