Pilgrims make an ancient journey in a state-of-the-art cable car. Their rides unfold in real-time, highlighting interactions with one another, the landscape, and this strange new mode of conveyance. Through these encounters, the film opens a surprising window onto contemporary Nepali lives, propelled along by the country’s idiosyncratic modernization.
“A View from the View” is a collection of postcards motivated by larger research questions into visual cultures, representations of tourism, and issues of mobility in Lebanon. The database aims to make portions of this genre of photography public. Beyond the database this project explores circulations of place (Eddies) and the act of disrupting the images’ composition (Reframing).
“A View from the View” is a collection of postcards motivated by larger research questions into visual cultures, representations of tourism, and issues of mobility in Lebanon. The database aims to make portions of this genre of photography public. Beyond the database this project explores circulations of place (Eddies) and the act of disrupting the images’ composition (Reframing).
https://scholar.harvard.edu/mcmurray/about
“Into the Hinterlands” is a video collaboratively produced with the Detroit-based performance ensemble, The Hinterlands who practice a form of ecstatic training which they see as a provocation towards the unknown. The “hinterlands” evokes an unknown space both physical and imaginary whose mystery is its very source of generation and from which their creativity emerges. Their practice is one of ecstatic play, of finding the edge of one’s balance, and the limits of one’s body.
An aviation field in an unknown suburb. (video, 2016)
The lake underneath the city burns the streets. The mountains throw rock into the gardens. In the crater of a volcano in Fogo, a model Brazilian city is lifted and dissolves.
Two people find each other in this landscape, 50 years apart.
https://ves.fas.harvard.edu/people/joana-pimenta
