on February 18, 2015, 7:43 pm, in reply to "Re: Hotel Ruins and graffiti"207.216.52.145
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Hi Charley, Sorry not to have responded sooner to your generous offerI have been in the edit room for the last two days. Yes a translation would be great. I will send you some stills. Thank you so much for offering. I haven't mentioned this yet but the film (hence the title "Hotel of Broken Dreams" ) is a sort of lament for the break up of a very wonderful relationship . I shot the film on the same day (just one week into a two month visit ) that Kate suddenly, and without warning or explanation, decided she wanted to break up with me. Unfortunately I was a guest in her house so in my despair the hotel felt like appropriate alternative accommodation (!) and I ended up spending the day loafing around in there. It was a terrible shock and the violence and disarray along with the sadness of the place encouraged me to write my own Graffiti: It is very traditional with a heart between the two names : Kate --->Chris Feb 14th 2014 - January 9th 2015 I mention this with the greatest respect to Kate who is a wonderful person . From what I have gathered my dreams are not the only ones that have been broken around the hotel! The good news as it now appears is that, whilst moping about, i did at lest manage to shoot a new project. This was just as well because I decided to Return to Canada the following day! This event was only the emotional motivation for the film The work is also , at a metaphorical level at least, about break down in general: Environmental/ Political /Geological/ climatic/economic/ psychological/ . and so on. At a physical level it's about the break down of the image itself which in the film appears to be unstable and precarious The crashing of waves on the sound track add to this sensation. I am mentioning all this for the second time because i had hope to raise some local interest in the art community. Video art is, as I'm sure many of you know, very important part of 20th and 21st century art ( some would say that it is the most important) and most enlightened galleries exhibit the sort of work I make on a regular basis. I exhibit in galleries worldwide but also love to show locally when the subject of the work is of local interest. (hopefully!) I have not mentioned what I do when I have been staying in town so unfortunately I don't know many artists in La Manzanilla. However, I feel it is time after 4 years here to get more involved and I was rather hoping this video might work as an introduction? The local gallery seems mostly interested in painting so perhaps another sort of space would work better? Any ideas would be gratefully received. Thanks for your contribution to this project> I will put something like this on the credits: "thanks to the La Manzanilla message board and the people of L Manzanilla" |
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