Barbara Sternberg Movies
- 2014
Far From
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Constructed with repetitions and variations, in reference to the musical form of a Nocturne, “Far From” is an accumulation of layers, a...
- 1994
beating
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To get beaten or give a beating, to beat oneself up. To beat the odds. Metal is forged by beating. Birds beat their wings, the sun beats down, and...
- 2014
COLOUR THEORY
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Goethe’s colour theory dealt with the optics of colour relations; Rudolf Steiner’s and Kandinsky’s theories attribute emotional,...
- 2023
touch
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touch (ing), -(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy "My window tonight casts light out...
- 2008
Beginning and Ending
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Images flutter and flicker in orgasmic rhythms. Visual references to Bataille’s “solar anus”, to romantic coupling, to monkeys and...
- 1999
Like a Dream that Vanishes
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"Like a Dream That Vanishes" continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal...
- 2014
Time Being V-VI
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Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the surrounding chaos.
- 1990
Antigone
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“Shot in an abandoned warehouse, documenting a contemporary adaptation of the Oedipus story by a group of Toronto experimental filmmakers,...
- 1997
C’est la vie
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A mini-presentation of consciousness dealing with cosmos. The world in a grain of sand. Connections between life, death, and the world are neither...
- 2023
Sunprints 1, 2, 3
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Based loosely on the tripartite plan of Dante's Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), the film was made by applying cyanotype chemistry to...
- 1997
Awake
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A bedroom (and life) viewed from the horizontal, while wondering whether to join in the race or wake up to the illusion. The soundtrack quotes from...
- 2007
Once
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"Poetry, film, light, life. An excerpt from Rilke's Ninth Elegy [...] evokes the beauty and brevity of life. Images shimmer in an uncanny light. We...
- 2020
Once I Am
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The day as it went along – feeling the light of the present…what else is there?
- 2021
Anything is Everything
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Anything is Everything is composed of sequences of disparate footage, but with threads to follow: circular shapes from outer and terrestrial space;...
- 2002
Burning
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"Your life is like a candle burning. Whether you are aware of it or not, it is burning." (Sri Sri Ravi Shankar)
- 2008
After Nature
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After Nature, after the Fall, after all - where do we go from here? Digital imagery and optically printed superimpositions combine in a cascading...
- 2019
Untitled #1 (sun vision)
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There were two initial impulses for the film: the paintings of John Turner (whence the bracketed title ”sun vision”) whose...
- 2017
The Earth in the Sea
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Videoed off projected super 8 footage, this short film in four parts (titles from Artaud: “ the earth in the sea, the air in the earth, the...
- 2010
vers(ing)
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vers(ing) opens in a coffee shop. People, sit, enter and exit. A conversation is heard. The video continues, traveling through the streets of a city,...
- 2014
Love Me
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Using only text-on-screen, Love Me distills the emotions of an earlier film, Beating – emotions which conflict, confuse, are difficult to...