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    • Cup of Sadness

    Cup of Sadness

    • 2000
    • 00h 03m 11s
    • Elvira Finnigan
    • Rent $100
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    Synopsis

    A shirt is unbuttoned revealing a cup filling with drops of water. A closer view presents reflected images that suggest chaos, war, death, sorrow and loss. The shirt is buttoned up, hiding the images. The sound carries on.

    Categories

    • Experimental,
    • Psychology,
    • Short,
    • Works by Women

    Shooting Format

    • Umatic (3/4")

    Languages

    • None

    Additional Details

    • Colour,
    • Special Effects,
    • Visual Effects,
    • Digital Compositing,
    • Sound

    Available Subtitle

    • None

    Region

    • Manitoba

    Screening Formats

    • DVD,
    • H.264

    Credits

    • Artist: Elvira Finnigan

    Provided By

    • Video Pool Media Arts Centre

    More By Elvira Finnigan

    Path

    • 2007
    • Elvira Finnigan

    Footage of the Hampton Court Palace maze, established in 1689 and perhaps the most famous existing maze in the world, is contrasted with Anishinabe petroforms found in Manitoba’s Whiteshell area. The English, mannered, controlled hedges are designed to limit sight; the rocks of the Canadian Shield, arranged in patterns of turtles, snakes and humans, were created to inspire teaching and healing. Finnigan interrogates the wisdom of the colonizing versus the colonized culture.

    Path

    Mater

    • 2004
    • Elvira Finnigan

    The camera mounted on a dolly moves through Mater, an installation of mother and child figures by Elvira Finnigan.

    Mater

    Jitterbugs

    • 1999
    • Elvira Finnigan

    Jitterbugs is a short video about masks of comedy and tragedy, mounted on wind-up toys, as they dance to old-time jitterbug music and vie for the spotlight.

    Jitterbugs

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