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Surface 9min, s8/video, 2000
Director: Alla Kovgan & Alissa Cardone
Surface was inspired by "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. The quality of images and shifting sound divide the inside and the outside. It is a journey of spirit through the struggle between forces of isolation and connection, oppression and release, the hidden and the revealed.
Surface is a film as well as a performance.
2 channel video projections with live percussion/accordion/ violin choreographed by Alissa Cardone. Performances: 'Invitation to the Voyage' by Outside Art Collective at AS220 Art and Performance Space, Providence, RI, USA, May 2000 and 'Femme Fatale Freak Show' at Green Street Studios, Cambridge, MA.
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Aching (1999)
10 min, 16mm, color
by Alla Kovgan
with Alissa Cardone
Boston Underground Film Festival 2000 (Boston, USA), East Art Gallery Film Festival 2000 (Balatonfured, Hungary), "Misguided Again", multimedia performance, Mobius Gallery (Boston, USA, 1999), "Shorts before the feature" series sponsored by LEV foundation, Coolidge Corner Cinema, (Boston, USA, for one week in April 2000)
Description:
Aching came out of a silent protest against violence and war as a way for conflict resolution. Through the union of sound, light and movements of a human body the film tells an imaginative story of a woman experiencing a state - of being a target on a bridge. The film explores relativity of a single moment in the context of the human universe. It stars modern dancer, Alissa Cardone. "Aching" is layered with complex sounds created by members of Saturnalia, a Boston experimental jazz group.
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