Private Project

HouseTour

Starting with captured images from real exchanges on my iPhone, my work probes the space between relationships as they strive to stay connected over all kinds of distances. The recursive portrait that occurs in a virtual exchange impels us to experience several vantage points at once. I’m particularly interested in the exchange between multiple points of engagement, and the way information travels.

The crux of this work is in the embedded window, which serves as a portal for information transference. Navigating multiple spaces simultaneously and a convergence of experience, I collage one narrative into another as I am looking for the metaphorical links and the intersection where identity is muddled. My work explores those moments when we feel as though we are mere observers to our own circumstance, when we are left floating in various states of suspended communication as we struggle for cohesion.

  • Laura Karetzky
    Director
  • Laura Karetzky
    Producer
  • Laura Karetzky
    Key Cast
  • Manuel Sosa
    Key Cast
  • Laura Karetzky
    Writer
    story line
  • Manuel Sosa
    Writer
    original music score
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Drama
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 42 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 1, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No

  • United States
Director Biography - Laura Karetzky

LAURA KARETZKY is a Brooklyn based visual artist working in painting and video-sculpture. Her work examines discourse in the digital age and explores our attempts to stay connected over all kinds of distances. Using multiple embedded narratives, and often depicting her community and peers, she engages the dislocated perspective of identity and space. Engaging the virtual window/portal as a recursive element where merging and autonomy collide, she reflects how technology impels us to recognize multiple selves.

She received her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, a MFA from The New York Academy of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Embedded, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles (2017) and In-Communication In-Transit, BRIC House, Brooklyn (2016). Group shows include TICK-TOCK, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx (2018); Summer, Flowers Gallery, New York City (2018); UNLOADED Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta (2017); Picturing the Unprintable, Flux Factory, New York City (2016); Saint Ann’s 5oth, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City (2016) and Between Us, The Lodge Gallery, New York City (2015). She has been featured in artcritical, Hyperallergic, The New York Times and American Arts Quarterly. She has a BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art.

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Director Statement

Starting with captured images from real exchanges on my cell phone, my work comprises a visual diary that probes the space between relationships as they strive to stay connected over all kinds of distances. The dislocated angle that occurs in these virtual communications has impelled me to reconsider perspective as I find myself placed behind my interlocutor’s eyes, as I am seeing me, seeing him, looking back. I look for a convergence of experience, as the spontaneous intersection between disparate and oblique narratives create new conversations and connections across identity, illuminating our human similarities. Two images in one image at the same time—the crux of this work is in the embedded window, which serves as a portal for information transference.