Tag: Lenore Malen

Lenore Malen: Quarry (2012)

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Quarry by video artist Lenore Malen, was filmed in upstate New York in June 200l, edited in September 2001 and with a final edit in 2012.
It was the very first project of The New Society for Universal Harmony. 
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Dafna created the audio score for Quarry (her second score for a Lenore Malen video).  Quarry was shown at
Lesley Heller Workspace February 1 – March 4, 2012.

Quarry 2001-15
“What if objects like rock refuse the stillness of being rendered and the on human world makes its own impress, exerts its own force.” JJ Cohen
Filmed in summer 2001 and edited immediately after 9/11

Directed by Lenore Malen

Cameras: Jordan Wolfson, Ilana Rein
Editors: David Bee, Ruppert Bohle, Lenore Malen
Sound: Dafna Naphtali
Choreography: Renee Rockoff

Quarry was filmed in upstate New York in June 200l, edited in September 2001 and with a final edit in 2012. It was the very first project of The New Society for Universal Harmony.

The most recent screening was at Lesley Heller Gallery Feb. 1— March 4th 2012 in a show that I curated titled The Herd Remorse.

(requires password..)  http://lenoremalen.com/artworks/quarry

More about Quarry and Lenore Malen’s video work is here:

http://lenoremalen.com/portfolio/video

Lenore Malen: Be Not Afraid audio score (2-channel video, 2007)

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“Be Not Afraid” is a two-channel looped video originally projected on suspended glass screens. A re-enactment of the first hypnotic session ever pictured (from an l9th century engraving) it also incorporates archival footage from the Worlds’ Fairs and NASA Footage.

Be Not Afraid, 2007

In 1784 the Marquis de Puysegur, a follower of Franz Anton Mesmer magnetized – or hypnotized – a shepherd, Victor Race on the Village Green

In the video members of The New Society for Universal Harmony are hypnotized under a tree behind which the viewer can see the remnants of Philip Johnson’s NY State Pavilion, itself a tribute to the U.S. Space Program. The video explores two aspects of modernity, the remnants of the utopian dream and the origins of psychoanalysis.

The video was shot in June 2006 by Ezra Bookstein and Ilana Rein, directed by Kathryn Alexander, edited by Lenore Malen and Ruppert Bohle with a score by Dafna Naphtali. It was produced by Lenore Malen & The New Society for Universal harmony.

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