Sweet is a surreal multidisciplinary work. Using several variations of hand made fine art techniques the artist synthesizes the many fragments together.
The work occurs to be a dream like narrative. The piece is also of a multi-sensory nature as sounds and diverse imagery activate several emotions. Over all the work has a darker undertone, the black and white camera work works really well.
It is unclear as to what the main objective is, but I get a sense of an over all metaphoric array of pieces, parts and snippets. Our human character glorifies and nurtures the little doll.
He seems to saves him and seemingly cares for him, only until we see the doll left abandoned at the climax! News reviews pass by on an old grainy television. This suggests that the outcome is not positive. Are you left feeling sad for the doll?

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Comment on the review from Ryan Seslow

The video tests you patients as you become increasingly uncomfortable, it is the same invocation one develops whilst they wait to see their dentist.
The silence and dull interior setting is sterile, institution like and ugly.
This double channel work flashes back and forth to add to the disruption to of one’s ability to stay patient. A test of human duration, even at only 01:16 we are happy that the piece ends when it does.

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Comment on the review from Ryan Seslow

I really am enjoying this piece. Random people are confronted to describe a piece of street art that has been wheat pasted onto the surface of a location in Baltimore.
We never get to see the actual piece, only fragments of the faces of the random people who were willing to stop and share their insights. Each statement is as diverse as the people themselves. The emphasis is on expression, the expression of both the works and the people trying to assert the meaning of the piece.

Really well done, a great idea that is full insightful content.

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Comment on the review from Ryan Seslow

Spinning Universe takes us on a surreal peak into what occurs to be a fragmented dream. We see a modular series of screens that jump from the center to the left and to the right.

Thus suggesting random thoughts and scattered thinking. We see images of dolls and figurines or religious and hollywood icons. Christ and Marylyn Monroe are Juxtoposed together into a ongoing series of actions.
As the confusion grows we hear and then see a character fire a weapon at another figure suggesting its death. The spinning turntable has an object on it that combusts slightly before the sound of gun shots. The spinning turntable damaged yet still spins on, much like the ongoing life force itself.

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Comment on the review from Ryan Seslow

Stranger is slow moving through the eyes of its main character, He just lost his Mother. His demenour evokes uncertainties with in us. It creeps up on us, and follows us. I find that stranger deals with several kinds of intimacy.
The awkward ones that we never really get used to. Death, getting old, dealing with a cheating partner, physically being attacked, and violence. They evoke a loneliness that these experiences contain.
These are dark emotions, uncertain ones that propel our ego as it perpetuates negative vibrations. The film brings us to the tipping point, the point of no return where the soul transcends the ego to expresses itself. A life is lost and yet there is a rebirth of some kind. Was it a dream, or was it all real?

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Comment on the review from Ryan Seslow