JUMP
A woman stands at the edge of a pier. She wilfully jumps. Slowly she falls through water where time catches her breath.
What are the memories between the transitional period of jumping and hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. Alive not dead. What memories would be placed to validate existence. Memories to record. Real or perceived.
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Cléa van der GrijnDirector
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Cléa van der GrijnWriter
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Cléa van der GrijnProducer
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Renee van der GrijnKey Cast
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Project Type:Experimental, Short, Other
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Runtime:26 minutes
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Completion Date:September 28, 2018
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Production Budget:55,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Ireland
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Country of Filming:Ireland
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Shooting Format:digital
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art ( purchased as part of their national collection )Dublin
Ireland
Purchased by IRISH MUSEUM OF MODERN ART as part of their permanent national collection -
Demetera International film festivalParis
France
Award winner -
Austin Art houseAustin , Texas
United States
Official selection -
ARFF Amsterdam film awardsAmsterdam
Netherlands
Award winner -
L.A Underground Film ForumL.A
United States
Honourable mention -
Oakland Film FestivalOakland, California
United States
Finalist -
WRPN womens International film festival
United States
Award winner -
Defy film festivalAustin Texas
United States
Official selection
Cléa van der Grijn (b. 1967 Ireland) is a visual artist, film maker and writer based in Sligo. After graduating with first class honours from the National College of Art and Design Dublin, van der Grijn presented more than 25 solos exhibitions and 40 group shows nationally and internationally.
Van der Grijn , employs various media, including site-specific installation, experimental film, large format photography, collaborative projects, sculpture, drawing and painting.
She travels extensively and has lived in Italy and Mexico with her young family, researching the relationship between emotional time and measured time, and the concept of memory and time through the culture of death. RECONSTRUCTING MEMORY was presented as a major experiential installation and film for The Model, Sligo, in 2016. Limerick City Gallery 2017 and Rochester museum, Minnissota USA 2017. Van der Grijns international award winning film JUMP (2018), has been screened nationally, in Europe and the USA. The JUMP project (film/neon/architectural POD + paintings ) toured Ireland for 9 months consecutively in five venues ; 2018/19 and was made possible with a major Arts Council touring award.
JUMP has been officially selected for multiple international film festivals and has picked up numerious awards.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Truth hurts. Since 2008 van der Grijn has been working on the subject of death. Her practice deals with unraveling the complexities associated around the culture of death and reconstructed memory, researching the myth of repressed memory, re- imagining and process all become part her narrative, understanding the rational, social and emotional circumstances that become constructed around memory and time. RECONSTRUCTED MEMORY (2016). The process of her studio practice is multifaceted. This is demonstrated through painting, film, installation, sculpture, audio and writing, which all deal with the reconstruction of time + memory. Fact and fiction. A construct rather than a deconstruct.
In JUMP (2018) van der Grijn asks what are the memories between the transitional period of jumping + hitting the water when life becomes momentarily suspended. When viewed from our typical perspective of being within and perceiving the world according to linear time, the period of a jump, between the precipitation of the action and the landing, the splash, happens in an instant; and from this perspective, not much can ‘happen’ in an instant. This is the effect of forgetting that linear time is a projection, a construct that the mind creates to make it possible to self-identify and exist in the world. This is the
paradox at the foundation of the experience of being in the world: the need to deny ontological reality to self-identify and to exist, juxtaposed with the deep yearning to know the truth of this ontological reality so as to know the whole truth, the truth of our essential being.