SHORT FILMS BY HELEN NIAS
Helen Nias is an artist filmmaker currently based in London. Her work is the result of an inquisitive desire to discover and understand more about the world and minds we inhabit. Topics of interest include spatial and temporal perceptions, dreams and reality, the experience of these and the memories these experiences create.
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Thoughts and views on various aspects of consciousness from a variety of people (and an iPhone). Shot on one cartridge of super 8 film for straight 8 2012. Pronounced 'cure-ee-osh-uss-ness'. |
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With Cassandra Vervoort. Some memories can be hidden away, but those recollected by smell seem to engulf us involuntarily.
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Experimenting with transferring analogue video of my siblings and I growing up in the 90s onto film, via digital video, and rows of inkjet printed frames on paper. |
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With Angus Johnstone, for straight 8 2011. We asked our friends and family in Melbourne what they thought would have been invented by the year 2011 - as XKCD put it, where are the flying cars? |
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What if it were possible to create a camera to take into our minds as we sleep, and relay the images taken there of insane landscapes, impossible architecture, and the ever-changing, flowing environment of inside our dreams? |
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This short film explores a number of fears and thoughts to do with how we perceive the world around us and in our heads.
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With Cassandra Vervoort. This short melancholic film explores ideas and fears about the future, mortality, and immortality and the isolation this would bring. | |
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A photograph is merely a representation of an event, just as a paragraph about an event in a dream is merely a representation of what actually happened. |
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A silent dream sequence created using animated photograms, paint, and computer collaged images, January 2009. |
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Drawing loosely on ideas of philosopher Edmund Burke, this piece also attempts to show that often the link between two opposites is a lot closer than it might seem at first. |
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More Short Films (2006-09)
Hangover (2009), Sea Ghost (2009), Keyboard Dance_Off (2009), Lynx Zombies (2008), Animation and Sound (2008), Lego Animation (2006) |
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