Eclipse
Roover Kati
Eclipse is a collage-like body of work about different ways of knowing. Scientific and indigenous knowledges side by side. The gap between different knowledges marked by the long history of colonisation. The film material is an anthropology film about Batak dances from Indonesia and Nasa footage about total sun eclipse.
Production Year
2015
Duration
00:02:50
Tyyppi
Asiasana
body image, collages, colonialism, dance (performing arts), documentarism, experimental films, indigenous people, nature, political art, science, solar eclipses
Original Title
Eclipse
Finnish Title
Auringonpimennys
Production Countries
Finland,United States,Indonesia
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Kati Roover (Author), Kati Roover (Cinematographer), Kati Roover (Director), Kati Roover (Editor), Kati Roover (Producer), Kati Roover (Script), Kati Roover (Sound Design)
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Kati Roover is Estonian-born Helsinki based multidisciplinary artist. Her practice spans across the mediums of moving image, sound, photography, painting, drawing, text and installations, draws upon and addresses a broad range of topics that are connected -– from human-non-human interactions, dialogical aesthetics, mythical storytelling, decoloniality and hydrofeminism, to the natural sciences and ecology.
8 works