January 10-11, 2015
An Installation/Performance by DAPHNE ROSENTHAL and MOLLY ALLIS
with Music by Bear Club
I WAS A LANDSCAPE IN YOUR DREAM
I WAS A LANDSCAPE IN YOUR DREAM invites you to experience multiple alternative worlds of the present moment. Step into different sizes and scales and see what feels fabulous to you, on you. Listen in a dreamy bear den to folk lullabyes. Embellish and accessorize your body with body parts. Play with everyday objects that are non-functional. Watch the body and the camera have an open discussion. See what the camera catches and perceives, how the body longs to move and what the costume allows."
Daphne Rosenthal is an experimental filmmaker and installation artist, with a background in documentary editing. Rosenthal’s work has been exhibited in galleries, festivals and museums throughout Europe and the US. Her work deals with the messy, restless, diffuse parts of ourselves, and the identification and association with daily life objects. Her installations use these everyday materials to create emotional landscapes that invite the viewer to wander and create their own experiences. In her films, Rosenthal documents the light and texture of these tactile landscapes; in her performances, the camera is active, a live agent of illumination. Rosenthal currently lives in Amsterdam and Los Angeles, where she has received MFA (2014) in Experimental Animation at Calarts. www.daphnerosenthal.eu
Molly Allis is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist and composer. Her award-winning animations have screened in festivals nationally and internationally, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Madrid Experimental Film Festival, and the Linoleum Festival in Moscow. She creates environments of play for people to inhabit, with realms of magic inside of the everyday. These installations become portals into deeper realms of intimacy and openness. Using lo-fi means of storytelling, she works with recycled materials to highlight the transformative potential of objects. She is also a founding member of Bear Club, a female indie-folk duo, whose new album is coming out in early 2015. Allis received her MFA from CalArts in Integrated Media and Experimental Sound Practices. http://loveparades.tumblr.
BEAR CLUB is Molly Allis and Jenica Anderson, a female indie-folk duo based in Los Angeles. Molly and Jenica met while attending the MFA music program at CalArts. Together they create ambient songs that hold the listener in a series of lullabyes. Their self-titled debut album will be released in early 2015. https://soundcloud.com/bear-cub-in-a-bear-club