Video Art: Moment Extended
Moment Extended arises from the need to look past the confines of traditional photography. I layer fixed and moving images and incorporated sound to allow the viewer to have an abstract yet tactile experience. Ocean waves or moving bodies beneath the water bring life to the still image. The videos’ rhythm and abstraction allows viewers to evoke their own feelings, stories and yearnings. The large scale of the works creates a poetic and immersive contemplative experience.
Many Moons in the Vacancy - Trailer
In the stillness of the night,
where shadows weave their tales,
many moons drift in the vacancy,
whispering secrets of the frail.
This work is an exploration of life’s transience and the suspension of time. After experiencing heart failure brought by Covid-19 - Lynn found herself sick and in-between life and death. Now coming out on the other side - this work is a meditation on what it means to exist in the spaces between life’s fleeing moments. Ghostly silhouettes emerge and dissolve at the threshold between the world of the living and a shadowy realm. Muted colors with vibrant bursts suggest the fleeting nature of human experience. A celestial expanse reveals a distant watchful eye of the moons - a self-observing from afar - detached yet intimately aware of the cycle of existence. There is uncertainty and the weight of unfulfilled potential, a tension between existence and absence.
Bubbles By The Sea - Excerpt
A Billboard opens sharing fancy
Of what is and what could be.
Bubbles fly,
Old bones travel,
and children find their way.
While on the sands are songs of love,
Of moans and touching hands,
While old bones travel, children frolic
And the bubbles find their way.
Roberto's Dream - Trailer
"Roberto's Dream" is how I see the world - where surreal and imaginary overwhelms the reality, an illusory fairytale. Believing that something strange exists is enough for it to appear in front of our eyes! And that's how magic happens.
New York Minute - Trailer
This work continues Lynn Bianchi’s relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown - the year of loneliness and isolation - yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window - still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime.
Therapy Dogs - Teaser
In the new socially distant world of 2020 we were often unable to be close to a lot of the people that we loved. As a form of consolation and meditation Lynn Bianchi started regularly watching dogs in the park – a therapy of sorts that made her feel less anxious about the world. In Therapy Dogs she recreated that feeling of a surreal joyous dog heaven – a reminder that we are not alone and our closest friends are never far. All of the dogs were photographed and filmed in Brooklyn in 2020.
Star Spangled Brighton Beach
We are presented with a picture of a regular day on Brighton Beach. The beach goers are enjoying the sun and the sea while a woman in the foreground is looking intently at something in the distance... Meanwhile a whole other world is coming alive inside of her body as if on a canvas.
The Waiting Pool - Excerpt.
The Pool is a result of my observation of people enjoying the sun and the water in a manmade space out in the middle of the sea. That natural pool placed far away from the shore had a sense of an elevated reality. The man in the water was captured on video “suspended,” floating for minutes at a time, while people enjoying this natural pool were photographed, frozen in the moment, all of them enjoying this universal communal and yet very individual experience of being present within the natural elements. A keen observer would also notice a school of fish that invades the corner of the pool like a dark shadow, creating an ominous presence and giving the peaceful moment an edge of danger. When I combined the still image and video, I recreated the feeling of suspension in time, a perpetual waiting that was actually present in the moment of my observation.
Pink Into Blue - Teaser
When colors flow into each other they make something new, something unexpected - a place where two realities meet, the place where the whimsy and the absurd say hello on a beach. In Pink into Blue whimsy joins the reality of the everyday. The footage inspired an improvised dialogue, which was performed by actors and recorded to match the video. The result is a little slice of life that has both the mundane and magical.
The Other Shore - Trailer
The Other Shore is an experimental film on the topic of the refugee crisis and the wide societal gap between the fortunate and the forgotten. The four interludes each depict a different sunny scenario of various microcosms at a colorful European beach resort. Pay attention, and you may notice that the refugees are right here, their presence is seen and felt, but they are easily ignored, almost as if they aren’t really there, like ghosts. The transitions show this different kind of beach. The color palette is bright, the sound is joyful, yet the two worlds could not be more different. They exist in the same realm. The very same beach that is enjoyed by the blissful or the ignorant is the final destination, a life-or-death wish for the ones without a home.
Grasshopper - Teaser
Grasshopper is a HD looped video showing a couple leisurely enjoying a late afternoon on the beach. The interpretations of time, the meaning of space are explored the way one might bounce off one reality to the next while thrown into the chaos of alternative dimensions. The fragments of existence were reassembled, displaying incoherent timelines existing within a single digital video.
“Time is supposed to be intangible and invisible, yet its signs are clearly visible all around us. We can sense the passage of time when we feel the wind blowing; we can see time flowing through the waves of the ocean, and the passage of time is embodied by our footprints in the sand – tracing the multiple trajectories of our frenetic activities. Like grasshoppers, sometimes we stop and we deceive ourselves with the idea that lying down while enjoying the world is all we should to do in our lives. It's a peaceful feeling, one of connection with the environment, but also one of disconnection from the struggles hidden within our environment. And then we start moving again, frantically struggling for a missed instant. Like jumping grasshoppers we navigate the world as if it were a hypertext. In this new digital world the classical idea of continuity is abandoned in favor of jumps and deviations from linearity: multiple layers are hidden within the most mundane views, and different timelines intersect each other in unpredictable ways.”
By The Sea - Trailer
This is a video art work that addresses the issue of ocean pollution: while we mindlessly use the nature's generous recourses, we ignore the environmental issues that keep piling up until they swallow us whole.
The Sky, The Man and The Sea
Where creativity meets clarity, and vision meets action.
We believe in doing things differently—with intention, with passion, and with people at the center of it all. Every detail here reflects that mindset.
Sonata for Seagulls - Excerpt
We fade into nothingness and the seagulls remain. And so does the ocean, and so does the rain.