VIVIDNESS BLOOMS
BLOOMS is a non-narrative, synaesthetic work. Moving and still images are used in a painterly style; music, motion, colour, inner and outer nature connect and blur our senses. This visual album is both a personal and ecological journey full of natural distortions, painting, mind-blinking, breathing, dreams and hallucinations. BLOOMS is composed of seven vignettes: I) Opening: Welcome to my primordial soup. II) Many Shades / Algae Bloom: Starting to dream on a moonlit night. Descent. III) Nocturnal Mycophagy: Brain spaces. The forest comes alive at night. IV) Photosynthesis / Bird Flight: WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy: Eyeball tickling, ambiance, and assault. V) Eutrophication: Disentangling dance in flowing crystals. VI) Pigeon Scrawls / Hypoxia: Trapped in a proliferating thicket of writing. VII) Sink: Rainbows in hand and erasure.
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Laura GillisDirector
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Laura GillisVisual and Video Art
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Laura Gillis (VIVIDNESS)Music
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Phil MarvyMusic
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Michelangelo Iaffaldano (Old Excellent)Music
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Seth Power (dssPower)Music
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Harpur Quee (HQ)Music
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Kathryn MerriamMusic
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powerSoundSound Mixing
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Michelangelo Iaffaldano (Old Excellent)Titles and Art collaborator
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Project Type:Experimental, Other
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Runtime:56 minutes 10 seconds
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Completion Date:March 5, 2021
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Production Budget:0 USD
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Country of Origin:Canada
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Country of Filming:Canada
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Language:English
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Shooting Format:digital
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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Diorama Room: Tune in to GreenAustin, Texas
United States
October 29, 2022 -
Backyard screenings: artist hostedToronto, Ontario
Canada
September 10, 2022 -
Pebbles Underground Film and Video ArtToronto
Canada
April 20, 2023 -
Cactus Club Independent Film FestivalMilwaukee
United States
August 10, 2023
Winner -
Festival Transterritorial de Cine UndergroundTigre, Quilmes, Solano, Don Bosco, Plátanos and CABA
Argentina
October 4, 2023 -
Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festivalonline
December 3, 2023
Laura Gillis is based in Toronto, Canada. She does not come at video art creation from a film background, but as a musician, process-oriented artist/therapist, and earthy-footed human being, now transferring her aesthetic sensibilities to video creation. BLOOMS is her first foray into video art and expresses a love of sound and visual art, nature, existential themes, and desire to nurture synaesthetic experiences and thinking. She is pleased to have had selections from BLOOMS included in Diorama Room's Tune in to Green exhibitions, and to have the film included in Pebbles Underground Film Festival, Cactus Club Independent Film Festival, Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festival, Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground, and to have memorized backyard screening audiences.
Time to play, friends. Love your sensorium.