rdpgobbi@yahoo.com
Thanks everyone who joined me October 5th at The Ridge Theater for premier of
insurrection
Biography
rena del pieve gobbi received a BFA (intermedia major) in May 1999 from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. She had studied animation there for three years before a severe case of tendonitis forced her to change into the intermedia department. Since her graduation she finished the postproduction on insurrection. She is currently living in abject poverty and questioning the sanity of independent film production as she forgoes grocery shopping for the pleasure of paying for the experience of creating in 35mm. Unfortunately each evening finds her animating in her dreams and the production of another film seems inevitable.
insurrection
can also be seen at
Northwest
Film and Video Festival
a four minute 35mm film
4688 handpainted negatives stereo dolby jazz soundtrack by JOHN KORSRUD and
THE
HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA
Rena del pieve gobbi made ruthless use of personal memories in order to create insurrection. Taking eight hours out of her life and spending 11 months distilling them into four minutes of abstract images, which delve into the psychological response to terror. Insurrection explores the aspect of synesthesia in abstract film using devices such as the effect of flicker films on the autonomous nervous system and the psychological responses to colour insurrection evokes specific emotional states in the viewer. Insurrection continues the exploration into closed eye vision embanked upon by Stan Brakhage. Rena del pieve gobbi combines in her cinematic process the ideology of abstract filmmaking with explorations by Carl Jung into the effects of mandala images on schizophrenics. The result of the use of this abstract narrative structure in insurrection is the evolution of filmic experience causing the dislocation of the position of the viewer as voyeur. By directly evoking emotion in the viewer the film becomes an intimate journey. Insurrection will arouse memories relating to the emotions evoked causing the viewer to translate the narrative into personal memory.
october 5th ridge theater 9:30pm october 7th VC1 4:15pm
with MIRACLE IN MEMPHIS
vancouver international film festival
