Grounded
Whitehead Oliver
Two groups of teenagers draw outlines of their friends lying down on the pavement in a car park with colourful crayons. The same method is used to draw chalk outlines of dead bodies at accident scenes.
Production Year
2002
Duration
00:03:42
Tyyppi
Asiasana
architecture, art, chalk, children (age groups), death, drawing (artistic creation), experimental films, plays and games, teenagers, urban space
Original Title
Grounded
Finnish Title
Grounded
English Title
Grounded
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Oliver Whitehead (Author), Oliver Whitehead (Director)
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Oliver Whitehead is a media artist from England who has lived and worked in Helsinki, Finland since 1971. He worked as director of the Media Department in the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki from 1991–97. Whitehead is a versatile and multidisciplinary artist. He moves comfortably within painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, film and video, often applying a combination of the techniques. More recently he has worked with live experimental video projections and also in cooperation with musicians He has exhibited in Finland and abroad.
18 works