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    Pieta

    • 2011
    • 00h 02m 35s
    • Theo Pelmus
    • Rent $200
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    Synopsis

    This video work is conceptualized as a discussion on religion and the deconstruction of a representation of belief such as Pieta.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • Abstraction,
    • Short

    Shooting Format

    • HD

    Languages

    • None

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Live Action,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • AppleProRes,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Theo Pelmus

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Theo Pelmus

    Immaculata Conception

    • 2014
    • Theo Pelmus

    This work deals with the idea of sacred and profane and the Catholicism as an instrument of colonization.

    Immaculata Conception

    Magnificat Alleluia

    • 2012
    • Theo Pelmus

    This work is created under the aesthetic of a baroque video-mural, dealing with the idea of martyrdom. In the work there are two melting ice-cream self-portraits that are framing two girl twins dressed in satin dresses moving in a prayer-like manner. Glamour and decadence are intertwined. The sound is of sacred operatic music.

    Magnificat Alleluia

    The Kingdom with Waterfalls

    • 2012
    • Theo Pelmus

    The image of Pieta is multiplied several times until it becomes an excess of iconography. In the background spinning waterfalls create a sensation of vertigo.

    The Kingdom with Waterfalls

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