Hasta La Motion!

Put together an edit of my trip to Vietnam this past summer! Shot on A7sii w/ Rokinon lenses. Special thanks to FilmED Academy of the Arts, Peace Works Travel, and my parents. Music by Tony Anderson – Licensed through Music Bed

After traveling 200 miles, a young woman (Sarah Goldberg) waits out Texas’s state-mandated 24-hour waiting period before her abortion can proceed. Winner of the Jury Prize for US Fiction at Sundance Film Festival. Created as part of Refinery29’s Shatterbox Anthology, a short form series spotlighting the voices of female filmmakers.

‘Interloop’, by artist Chris Fox, hangs from Wynyard station ceiling, hovering above the escalators that travel underground from York Street. The vast twisting accordion-shaped sculpture reconfigures the heritage escalators that once stood there in a stitched form. Suspended between two ends of the building, Interloop measures more than fifty metres in length, weighs over five tonnes, and weaves in 244 wooden treads and four combs from the original escalators. Whilst paying homage to the past, it also, simultaneously, looks forward to the future. First installed in 1931, the historic timber-escalators – which have served Sydney’s commuters for over eight decades – held a sense of time, journeys, and travel before they were removed this year. Interloop resembles, in part, the original escalators: important for Fox is creating an otherworldly space above people’s heads. The artwork explores the idea that people are stationary on an escalator whilst also travelling, allowing for a moment of pause that occurs mid-motion. The sculpture resonates with people in this state, referencing all those journeys that have passed and are now interlooping back. A major milestone for Sydney and for Transport for NSW, who commissioned the large-scale sculptural project, Interloop provides an important legacy, helping to maintain and celebrate the historic identity of the city, while also looking to its future. Video: David Varga Sum of Infinity

Angelo Musco’s ongoing story, told in images inspired by nature and the human body, follows the feathers of Aves and the vibrant red butterflies of Chrysalis and like the descending feathers and butterflies the narrative settles in a suspended and peaceful garden entitled “Aaru”.

Several photo shoots and 18 months of production have gone into the series comprised of ten dramatic singular flowers like a lily, a rose, a chrysanthemum, a tulip and culminates in a lush title piece of a garden festooning into the viewers imagination with texture, and life.

The meaning of the word Aaru comes from Egyptian mythology and represents an eternal paradise, a lush oasis for eternity. The ancient Egyptians believed they had a dangerous journey through the underworld to the Hall of Final Judgment where the “Weighing of the Heart” was executed before they could continue onto Aaru. At the final judgment the Goddess Maat who represented order and ethics presided over a giant scale where the person’s heart was weighted against her feather, a symbol of truth and justice.The belief was the the soul and the culmination of how a person lived their life resided in the heart. If the heart was heavy from an evil life it would tilt the scale and the person could not proceed to Aaru, and for those with hearts light as a feather, they continued onto a heavenly paradise to resume their happy lives.

Finding the lush garden Aaru is a natural continuation of the artist’s story, and sets the tone for a multitude of new stories to be discovered from this magical garden.

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