February 5, 2008
Sonata for Two Instruments, 2-channel video projection
Jeannie Simms is a visual artist working in the avant-garde tradition using photography, cinema and performance. Her work deals with biography, speech, and historical legacy. She uses stories, texts and biographies from real and fictional people to explore the interconnections between subjectivity, language, environment and representation.
Jeannie Simms’ works have screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (06), Courtisane Video and New Media Festival in Belgium (06), the ICA in London (02), the ARS Electronica Center in List Austria (03), Kunstbuero in Vienna, Austria (03), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (04), the Alternative Film Center in Belgrade, Serbia and Montengro (03), Los Angeles County Exhibitions (LACE, 05), the MIX festival in New York (02, 03), the Eigth Biennial in Havana, 4D project in Havana, Cuba (03) and during a solo show at the OHT Gallery in Boston (04).
Blood Relations Video, 35 Minutes, 12 Photographs, 2003-2004
Blood Relations is a 35-minute experimental narrative video with accompanying photographs, which tells the story of a family living on the edge of the Southern California desert. The unspoken grief for the dead father and husband mirrors the ongoing disappearance of natural land as planned housing communities multiply around their home. The film explores the entangled dynamics of the characters in the enclosed domestic environment in relation to the vast space around them. Scenes of their home life are inter-cut with sequences of Lou's surreal alter existence, inspired by video games syntax and action films.
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