De video hierboven is een korte trailer. De volledige video “S.A.D.” is 3:25 lang.
Seasonal affective disorder (S.A.D.) is no longer confined to winter depression. As the climate crisis grows, this disease occurs more frequently. When the environment is disturbed, we humans also suffer from disturbance – because we are just part of the environment.
Inspired by the sonopoem of Ilaria Boffa, which deals with this current situation, Maria Korporal’s video expresses these tensions between conflict and harmony. Using animated charcoal drawing on a deformed video of the seashore, the transformation of images leads us into a haunting universe.
title: S.A.D.
technique: Experimental video and animated charcoal drawing
length: 3’25”
year: 2021
poem: “S.A.D.” written and spoken by Ilaria Boffa *
soundtrack: field recording by Ilaria Boffa *
Lucio Battisti’s song “Nessun Dolore” (No Pain) recorded at George Washington University is performed by the I-Talians band during the NeMLA conference “Writing in a different language”.
video concept, camera, charcoal animation, effects and montage: Maria Korporal
© Maria Korporal 2021
Stills from the video:
Screenings en onderscheidingen:
• 14 december 2024: Sunset Screening & Performance, Bootshaus aan de Spreeuferweg, Berlijn.
• 30 november – 14 december 2024: Nuvola Creativa Festival delle Arti – VII edizione 2024, samengesteld door Antonietta Campilongo, Villa di Massenzio, Rome.
• 5-21 juli 2024: Subtil, Galerie VBK Berlin.
• 7-20 april 2023: streetside cinema – a/perture, Winston-Salem NC, USA.
• 24-26 juni 2022: 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlijn. 25 juni, 22-23 uur: Screening van de video S.A.D. op de aanlegsteiger aan het kanaal bij de galerie Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch.
• Halve finalist in de categorie animatie van het !Flick! Film Festival 2022, UNC Greensboro, USA.
• Screening première 28 november 2021: Nature and Culture – Poetry Film Festival, georganiseerd door The Poetic Phonoteque, Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Kopenhagen, Denemarken.
• Online première 20 mei 2021: Bologna in Lettere 2021, il festival online.
Screening op 25 juni 2022 bij de Kunstbrücke am Wildenbruch tijdens het festival 48 Stunden Neukölln, Berlijn.
* Ilaria Boffa is an Italian poet. She has published three poetry collections and she is one of the eight authors included in the North East American Association publication ‘Writing in a Different Language’ Vol XL 2018. Over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken word with sounds.
Her work can be read and listened here: https://linktr.ee/ilariaboffaIB
