Film Archive
A selection of film stills and critiques by Katherine Araniello

Diners entering inside restaurant
Pasta  spilt on table
Blood hand - waiter
Diners panicking

 
3 Women in alleyway
Face - txt desire
Hand holding beer glass
 
   
Webcam Cycle 1
Feb. 2003
(approx. 40 secs.)
Pixelated face  
   

This is an animated piece with sound effects featuring a rubber doll without genitalia that morphs from male to female. The rubber doll never bends and remains static. The physique of the doll implicates a Male dominance at first but then it grows breasts and a vagina. The film toils with stillness and movement, which crescendos at the point of physical contact from a floating hand.


 

Eyes behind animated mask
Genderless rubberr doll
Animated vagina + hand

 
 
 
   
3 minutes, 2001 (2.37min) Experimental piece of work looking at ways of subverting difference into difference. Combining animation with live footage. Portraiture elements within the piece. Summary: Two portraits of disabled women's faces that change and merge together which include animation. The visuals change to the monotonous soundtrack. My work takes an ironic view on disability and 'subverting difference into difference' means that I have used the theme of disability ambiguously. The two heads of disabled women (although disability may not be apparent), are continuously changing throughout the piece through flashes of animation and collage. The changes do not attempt to 'normalise' or 'conform' but rather distort and break down patterns of stereotyping disabled people.
2 x merged women's face.
Bruised face.
Painted white face & red hair over photo.
 
   
Inflate, 2001 (5.19 min)

Inflate is practised within some loosely set parameters which included working within the limitations of the frame. The actors steer away from a conventional narrative and are autonomous within the space and each other. The actions are improvised to a sound-track, which in turn stimulated the tone of the piece. In this film I do not exploit difference but attempt to use difference as a tool to destabilise traditional ideologies of normality and otherness. In the Inflate video, there is a ritualistic undertone, which distracts the viewer from the subjects.


 

Cat mask.
Face with goggles.
Balaclava and goggles.
Woman with hatchet.
 
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