
Melancholy
Melancholy
Michael Amter
United States
2020
Video art
Short Film
A series of animated studies exploring mental disorders commonly experienced with the human condition. Attempting to mediate emotive concepts in an intentionally repetitive way to replicate certain patterns experienced in life. Hoping to create a simple visual metaphor encompassing alienation, grief, depression, isolation, loss, mania, mortality, etc. Attempting to interpret the vast complex in the most simplistic way possible. The main animated symbol that dominates this experiment was modestly conceived after studying various theories about genetics, particles, waves, etc. etc.
general information
edition
6th ECRÃ Festival
venues
16-24/07 - ONLINE
duration in min
4 videos of 44 sec.
premiere
Canberra Mental Health Film Festival 2020: Australia: 2020
indicative classification
L / Free for all audiences / Free for All Audiences
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tags
art, experimental
Michael Amter

Michael Amter began serious artistic study at Washington University SOA in the late 1980s. With a truly diverse background, the artist has exhibited extensively around the world, beginning professionally with the iconic 01 Gallery in LA, CA during the 1990s. He developed a unique personal interpretation in experimental video after years of extensive work in TV film production while living in Brooklyn, NY. Michael’s history includes a variety of entities; such as 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Apexart, Cité Internationale des Arts, Creative Time, Gallery Aferro, Instinc, Meridian International, Studio Kura, etc. Notable moments; a request for submission from former director David Ross for the Whitney Biennial in the 1990s, a piece created for a 9/11 memorial exhibition presented to the US Library of Congress, and recent work with the special needs art class Pore Pore in Tokyo.
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