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Life Notes

Life Notes - is an ambient experimental film. This work is a video meditation on one’s existence. It arises from the need to look past the confines of traditional photography and use multimedia arts as a language to discuss the meaning of life and our ability to stop and contemplate.

Lynn Bianchi spent several weeks in Connecticut, photographing and filming her friend, artist Doug Rice. Lynn wanted to capture his larger-than-life spirit and restless personality. She felt that his joie de vivre, his hopes, and at the same time his sadness stood for something deep inside us all. A reminder that life is nothing but a circle, and, as they say, everything passes.

The result of that collaboration is Life Notes – an ensemble of experimental videos nestled in magical realism, depicting one’s strange and joyful existence. The film invites self-reflection and pulls the viewer into the dream-like sequences, inviting them to revel in their strangeness and calmness.

Life Notes is a celebration of life and death and passing of time. Sounds of distant music and falling rain draw the audience further in. How can we take the mundane and make it otherworldly for ourselves?

Here Lynn Bianchi creates an environment, where the audience falls into introspection with ease. One’s response to this ethereal imagery is deeply personal.

  • Lynn Bianchi
    Director
  • Lynn Bianchi
    Writer
  • Lynn Bianchi
    Producer
  • Doug Rice
    Key Cast
  • Yana Birykova
    Editor
  • Irina Abraham
    Assistant Editor
    79 Parts, Vegucated
  • Yana Birykova
    Special Effects
  • Francis Wang
    Special Effects Advisor
  • Yana Birykova
    Sound Design
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 4 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 27, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    3,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Budapest International Foto Awards
    Budapest
    Hungary
    Gold in Moving Image category
  • London Rocks Film Festival
    London
    United Kingdom
    October 30, 2020
    British Premiere
    Official Selection: Experimental
  • European Cinematography Awards (ECA)
    Amsterdam
    Netherlands
    May 29, 2021
    Semi-Finalist
  • American Filmatic Art Awards
    New York, NY
    United States
    February 26, 2021
    North American Premiere
    Award: Experimental Short Film
  • Experimental Forum
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    Honorable Mention
  • FLICKFAIR
    Los Angeles, CA
    United States
    July 1, 2021
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Lynn Bianchi

Bianchi’s photographic work has been shown at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan; Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne in Switzerland; Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto among others. Servitude I from the Heavy In White series was added to the collection of Walker Art Center in 2019. The work is also reproduced in the Walker’s catalogue The Expressionist Figure among such artists as Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, David Hockney, Pablo Picasso, etc.
Bianchi’s art has been featured in over forty publications, including The Huffington Post and Encyclopedia of Food and Culture, Vogue Italia and Zoom in Italy, Phot’Art International in France, and GEO in Germany. Lynn’s work resides in numerous private collections across the globe, including Manfred Heiting’s and Edward Norton’s, as well as in museum collections including Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; Brooklyn Museum in New York and Biblioteque Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Ken Damy in Brescia, Italy, 21c Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. She has recently exhibited in New York City at The Untitled Space, The Armory Show at Salomon Arts Gallery, One Art Space, Shchukin Gallery.
In 2011 Lynn began working in the video field and has to date produced about 30 multimedia works. Her most recent projects have been shown at various festivals all over the world, including Tulum World Environment Film Festival, Dallas Medianale, MicroActs in London, New Earth International Film Festival in Poland, the famous New York Cinematography AWARDS (NYCA) among others.
Some of the works have been featured at CICA Museum in South Korea and included into International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Columbia – ISEA-2017, Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil – FILE- 2017, Piemonte Share Festival – the Italian art fair of electronic art, digital art and new media and others.

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Director Statement

Bombarded by the constant flux of information injected into our lives by technology, we are losing our ability to contemplate. But can technology be turned upon itself and help us feel in a deep, spiritual way? To investigate this, I turned to mixed media. In my work, I master a composite moving image to allow for the grandeur and magic of The Everyday to unfold. I see my video work as an extension of the still image. This combination of moving and still images expresses our shifting internal gestures – where the Eternal is reconciled with the Quotidian.