{"id":79,"date":"2008-11-25T11:54:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T10:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/?page_id=79"},"modified":"2008-12-06T22:07:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T21:07:46","slug":"curry-jessica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vad.nmartproject.net\/?page_id=79","title":{"rendered":"Curry, Jessica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jessica Curry (UK)<\/strong>
\nbiography<\/a>
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Video title:
\nI carry Your Heart<\/strong>
\n2008, 6:11<\/p>\n

i carry your heart is a film about love: an unfashionable theme for these times perhaps. Set to a poem by e.e.cummings the film\u2019s overriding concern is passion. <\/p>\n

Cyril Connolly said that \u201cthere is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.\u201d This film rails against that concept. It\u2019s only since I had a child that I realise the fragility and exquisiteness of life, and the piece is a celebration of how motherhood has informed, changed, improved and fed my creativity. I literally carried my child\u2019s heart inside me for nine months- perhaps the ultimate act of love and connection. My ongoing health problems, hinted at in the film, have only served to reinforce this feeling of wanting to hold on to life with a firm and stubborn grip. It also raises the question of whether love can exist without sacrifice. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never made an autobiographical piece of work before. I didn\u2019t shoot any new material for the film, instead I used only existing images. The Super 8 footage is from my wedding, the child in the film and on the ultrasound is my son Oscar, the x-ray footage is mine and the final film is projected onto my body. The images has been digitally manipulated and re-coloured to imbue the film with a sense of hyper-realism, nostalgia, loss and hope. It was only latterly that I realised that this film is also about my father, who had a quadruple heart bypass last year. A surgeon held my dad\u2019s heart in his hands and that imbues the heart footage with a particular poignance for me. <\/p>\n

Mother, daughter, wife, lover. All these manifestations of womanhood are buried in the film. The line \u201chere is the deepest secret nobody knows\u201d also suggests the possibility of a private inner life for the artist. Three generations of men- my father, my husband and my son are portrayed in this film- and i carry is about wanting to be loved by all of them and wanting and needing to love them.<\/p>\n

I find it difficult to put the film into any kind of theoretical context as, for me, this was a visceral act of creativity. I don\u2019t think that any piece of music I\u2019ve written has come so from the heart as this one. <\/p>\n

This video participates in
\nCologneOFF IV – Here We Are!<\/strong><\/a>
\n4th edittion of Cologne Online Film Festival
\nMother program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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