Clea T. Waite

 

Nothing Broke but the Heart

computer animation and digital video, 6:55 min. 1994.

Music Carmina Burana by Carl Orff

Prizes

1995 Best Video Production, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Festival der Jugend .

1995 3rd Prize, Art Category Prix Pixel INA .

1994 50 best, Deutscher Videokunstpreis .

Screenings

1997

Good and Bad Machines, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany
  Festival International du Film de Femmes, Créteil, France
1996

Pandemonium London Festival of Moving Images, ICA London, England
Bilbao Festival, Bilbao, Spain
Videoforms, Cedex, France
Festival International du Film de Femmes, Créteil, France
1995

London Animation and Effects Festival, London, England
2. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
ISEA '95 Montreal, Canada
SIGGRAPH 95 Computer Animation Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Filmothek der Jugend, Stadt Oberhausen, Germany
9th Fringe Film & Video Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Prix Pixel INA, Imagina, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Festival Internacional de Video Cidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain.
1994

Viper International Film & Video Festival, Lucern, Switzerland
Deutscher Videokunstpreis, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Freiburger Video Forum, Freiburg, Germany

Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen touring program (since 1995) Oberhausen, Germany
Permanent Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA

Modern, cold, invasive... none-the-less, state-of-the-art electronic medical technologies; EPI scans with huge electromagnets, computers, film, and video, have allowed me to create very literal invocations of metaphors that have existed since the age of the Troubadours. Nothing Broke but the Heart compulsively, hypnotically, runs through distorted icons of "love", heart always "center screen". A chaos of color and light, individual frames flash like memories. These hearts - hearts of stone, burning hearts, wooden hearts, "mutated" hearts, hearts that are only words - are punctuated throughout the video by medical images of my body's real heart - breathing, pumping, catching in its rhythm. This video uses the hardness, the rationality of electronic technology and its processes - the antithesis of emotion - as the language with which to express emotion. It is a modern vocabulary for a poetry of our age.

© C. Waite 1994