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    • Larva

    Larva

    • 2013
    • 00h 05m 35s
    • Chantel Mierau
    • Rent $100
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    Synopsis

    Someone wearing a pink, hand-knit, vaguely larva-like suit tries very hard to complete a simple task, but is restricted by coziness.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • Absurdity,
    • Body,
    • Short,
    • Works by Women

    Shooting Format

    • HD

    Languages

    • None

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Sound,
    • Stereo

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba,
    • Prairies

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Chantel Mierau

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Chantel Mierau

    Obraumche (How to get the sweet from the centre)

    • 2019
    • Chantel Mierau

    Obraumche is a Plautdietsch word that refers to the centre, most delicious part of watermelon. In this work, the artist forms a drain clog, and then works to find its “Obraumche”. Instead of dealing with the delicious, this work is an interplay of gross textures resulting from the body’s activities.

    Obraumche

    The Clean house

    • 2011
    • Chantel Mierau

    In this two channel video, the image of cutting and sewing a pure white cloth underpins a narration about clean laundry, comfortable chairs, moths, dust and death, drawing parallels between repetition in the home, and tradition in the House of God.

    The Clean House

    One for Each of My Vanities

    • 2011
    • Chantel Mierau

    A woman simultaneously adorns and disfigures herself by sewing tassels onto a flesh-coloured cloth mask, creating a beard. Perhaps she is guarding herself against vanity; perhaps she is atoning for it.

    One for Each of My Vanities

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