Temple of Truth
Identifier
D.2012-08-0044
Date Of Production
2018
Abstract
A work created for the 2018 International Media Mixer by filmmaker Giuseppe Boccassini (Italy) and sound artist Alex Inglizian (United States).
The International Media Mixer was produced by Chicago Film Archives in collaboration with Lab 80 Film - Cinescatti Archive with support from the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. In this cross-cultural artistic exchange, Italian artists were commissioned to make a new film using material from CFA’s collections and Chicago-based artists were comissioned to do the same using footage from a regional Italian archive, Lab 80 film – Cinescatti. Their creations premiered in Italy at the Bergamo Film Meeting and in the United States at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago as part of the 2018 Millennium Park Summer Film Series produced by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
The International Media Mixer was produced by Chicago Film Archives in collaboration with Lab 80 Film - Cinescatti Archive with support from the MacArthur Foundation’s International Connections Fund. In this cross-cultural artistic exchange, Italian artists were commissioned to make a new film using material from CFA’s collections and Chicago-based artists were comissioned to do the same using footage from a regional Italian archive, Lab 80 film – Cinescatti. Their creations premiered in Italy at the Bergamo Film Meeting and in the United States at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago as part of the 2018 Millennium Park Summer Film Series produced by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.
Description
Description provided by the artists:
Temple of Truth is an archive that constantly ambulates amid tangles of decaying worlds, ex-perienced as petrified, deprived, residual traces, preserving in the process of taking along and transforming itself, a magmatic state, a specific, ancestral, sometimes whitish non-space. A liveliness of half-alive bodies , both human and animal, that catch fire in a latent bullfight and which, in becoming persōnae, inhabit sarcophagi which crumble into solid ground like streams of water that suddenly submerge clouds, swinging on the brink of a vertiginous fall of nocturnal glances in the middle of exotic poses and aerial visions.
Temple of Truth is an archive that constantly ambulates amid tangles of decaying worlds, ex-perienced as petrified, deprived, residual traces, preserving in the process of taking along and transforming itself, a magmatic state, a specific, ancestral, sometimes whitish non-space. A liveliness of half-alive bodies , both human and animal, that catch fire in a latent bullfight and which, in becoming persōnae, inhabit sarcophagi which crumble into solid ground like streams of water that suddenly submerge clouds, swinging on the brink of a vertiginous fall of nocturnal glances in the middle of exotic poses and aerial visions.
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Form
Dimensions
1920 px
x 1080 px
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