Clea T. Waite

 

Stella Maris

music by Mario-Erik Paoli
Experimental Super8/video; running time: 11 min. 1988

Prizes

1993 Prix Insolite, Grand Format, Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous-Marine, Antibes, France.

1989 Best of New Short Works, Mill Valley Film Festival.

1988 1st prize, Experimental Category, 9th Annual Video Arts Festival, Amherst, MA.

Screenings

1998 Rencontres Internationales Art cinéma/vidéo/ordinateur, Paris, France
1994 IMPAKT Video Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1993 Festival Mondial de l'Image Sous-Marine, Antibes, France
1990 No-TV, broadcast on various NY stations, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY.
1989 Poetry Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA.
Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, CA.
1988 5th International Festival of Clips and Music Videos, Saint-Brieuc, France.
9th Annual Video Arts Festival, Amherst, MA.
Video Jamboree, MWF Club, New York City
Three Video Premieres, Boston Film Video Foundation, Boston, USA

 

Permanent Collection, Ulli Rimcas - Max Fish Bar and Gallery, New York City.

 Stella Maris is a study of the human form and the use of light, movement, rhythm, and sound to evoke the kind of metaphor and sensibility usually associated with poetry. The triptych structure of Stella Maris echoes the Triple Goddess archetypes, the Virgin, Matron, and Crone, who personify the three main phases of existence, Birth, Life, and Death. The structural references to the Goddess in the piece are complemented by Mario-Erik Paoli's score, which interweaves sounds from nature with the music. The imagery of this piece was inspired by the unique quality of light under water, by the photography of Brett Weston and Phillipe Lavaille, and marble statues from Antiquity. The text was drawn from ancient Sumerian prayers, the poetry of Sappho, Osip Mandelstam, and James Joyce's Ulysses, as well as original writings.

© C. Waite, 1988