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Kelly O'Connor

 

Video Work

 

OÕConnorÕs video work traverses a world of exploration and exchanges. She uses the camera as a tool in her investigations, where it becomes thrust right into the action. This turbulent interaction is then sistered with its opposite, in silent and often tender observational sequences.

 

Most of the videos on this page are from ÔThe Mortgage SeriesÕ, about the supposed impending demolition of her childhood home.  The project to date includes videos, photographs and drawings. Five of the videos below are from this project [ÔAre We there Yet?Õ (2:55mins), ÔThe Green LightÕ (2:20mins), ÔHomesick TriptychÕ (2:10mins), ÔNavigating The MortgageÕ (2:45mins) and ÔMarbulus InteruptusÕ (4:20mins)] 

 

Many of these videos are expressed through the guises of a child, as she struggles with understanding the inevitability of loss.  Each piece communicates small details of the rituals and nuances of her home space.

 

Click on the images below to view 20 second clips of each video.

 

 

Are We There Yet?

 

The Green Light

 

 

Homesick Triptych

 

Navigating The Mortgage

 

 

Marblus interuptus

 

 

 

 

ÔBye Bye BabyÕ was born from experimentation with the camera, using it as a tool to develop the idea of the viewer becoming proprietor of the acts being watched.  It is also concerned with pleasure/pain borders. 

 

ÔMnemonicÕ is part of a series dealing with memory loss.  OÕConnor experiments with editing, using short jumps, various camera angles and underlying images combined with indecipherable sound to create a type of blurred unreality often associated with the recall of memory.

 

 

 

Mnemonic

Bye Bye Baby

 

 

 

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