Private Project

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.

  • Laura Gillis
    Director
  • Laura Gillis
    Visual and Video Art
  • Laura Gillis (VIVIDNESS)
    Music
  • Phil Marvy
    Music
  • Michelangelo Iaffaldano (Old Excellent)
    Music
  • Seth Power (dssPower)
    Music
  • Harpur Quee (HQ)
    Music
  • Kathryn Merriam
    Music
  • powerSound
    Sound Mixing
  • Michelangelo Iaffaldano (Old Excellent)
    Titles and Art collaborator
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Runtime:
    56 minutes 10 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 5, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Diorama Room: Tune in to Green
    Austin, Texas
    United States
    October 29, 2022
  • Backyard screenings: artist hosted
    Toronto, Ontario
    Canada
    September 10, 2022
  • Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art
    Toronto
    Canada
    April 20, 2023
  • Cactus Club Independent Film Festival
    Milwaukee
    United States
    August 10, 2023
    Winner
  • Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground
    Tigre, Quilmes, Solano, Don Bosco, Plátanos and CABA
    Argentina
    October 4, 2023
  • Octopus Marquee Independent Film Festival
    online
    December 3, 2023
Director Biography - Laura Gillis

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.

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Director Statement

Time to play, friends. Love your sensorium.