Angella Conte

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Videos

Water put us together and take us apart

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Water put us together and take us apart
Technique - Video
Duration - 4.50 min
Sound track - Festa na rua-Rodolfo Stroeter
Year - 2010

These scenes were taken in a community that lives on the Negro river’s water in a creek in Manaus.

Houses were built on gigantic tree trunk, that float on the surface of the river, that changes between flood and low during the year.

There everything, as life, float; the school, the church, the grocery, the houses, the vegetable gardens and orchards.

All separate and united by water.

Still beating

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Still beating
Technique - Video
Duration - 11’36’’
Year - 2010

Images of forest that one day was intact, images of forest that slowly is being lost, images the forest that is hanging by a tread. In its stem still runs the sap, there is still life, still beating.

Everything so still and so mixed. Intense heat and wet, silence and tension, sensation of plenty of eyes observing me, sometimes scares sometimes blind such beauty.

Images taken in the Amazon forest, its vegetation, the soil, the light that comes between the leaves, the roots that twist, the trees that seeking the light and with its shadows protect the seeds, shelter animals, imposes themselves and maintain.

Breathe the air of the uncertainty.

To me it's enough the shadow that leaves, the body that moves away

Author - Angella Conte
Title - To me it's enough the shadow that leaves, the body that moves away
Technique - Video
Duration - 2'56''
Year - 2010

One night , an Indian saw, in the clear waters of a lake the figure of the moon. The poor girl, thinking that the moon had come to pick her up, she threw herself in the deep water of the lake and was never seen again. (The legend of Victoria Regia)

The river is home to numerous victories.
Important victories,
Suffered victories,
Victories that run against time,
All fruits of one war.

War who have no scruples,
Governing evil,
It destroys the beauty,
Mistreat the see,
The feeling,
And the living.

With images obtained in a stream of the Amazon River, the video shows the beauty of a nature observed by wings that there still fly.

C23L42Window

Author - Angella Conte
Title - C23L42Window
Technique - Video
Duration - 15'57"
Year - 2010

The vídeo put the viewer in a travel condition and with the constant moviment sametimes inside, sometimes outside of the train, in a place that its a lot and it isn't anything.

With images obtained through a window of a train, the artist records the route taken by hundreds of people daily between Aveiro and Porto, northern Portugal, and shows through the displacement of a train the diversity of images, sounds, colors and environments that we are exposed every day without realizing it.

DR

Author - Angella Conte
Title - DR
Technique - Video
Edition - Kika Nicolela
Participation - Manoela Laloni
Soundtrack - So Sorry – Feist
Duration - 1.04 minutes
Year - 2008

This video presents in a comical way a phrase used for women very often and criticized by men "discuss the relationship".DR is a one minute video that reveals a woman trying to discuss the relationship with one man, in a shape of ball, showing the male behavior in this subject.

This video is a humorous criticism about the human behavior and the woman/man relationship.

Between fluids

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Between fluids
Technique - Video
Duration - 2 minutes
Technical participation- André F. Gonçalo
Year - 2010

This work is part of the project “Da Nascente à Foz” (From Riverhead to Mouth), developed on the theme water.

This project deals with many questions, such as: accumulation, excess, movement, masses of people, waste, tolerance, limit and thoughtful acts.

During 2 minutes the artist allows that 120 liters of water fall on her body, from head to feet, at room temperature.

Assembly: 1 projector and 1 DVD player Or 1 TV set with 1 DVD player

EntreLíquidos from Angella Conte on Vimeo.

Enviornment I

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Environment I
Technique - Video
Duration - 3.36 minutes
Edition - Felipe Barros
Year - 2008

Video project shows urban scenes gotten from a busy avenue in Manhattan and at the same time shows solitary scenes in a closed place.

This project is about many questions as; accumulation, excess, moviment, masses of people, waste, tolerance, limit and scarcity.The projections present during 3.36 minutes an amount of people walking in this avenue and the volume of water always wasted by all of us, every day.
The projections complete and question itselves.

This work was developed in New York and São Paulo.

Assemble: 1 projector and 1 DVD player
Or 1 Tv set with 1 DVD player

Essence

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Essence
Technique - video
Duration - 5’
Images- Felipe Barros e Flávio Lamenha
Soundtrack - Hélio Pisca
Edition - Felipe Barros
Year - 2009

“What the nature of things are, substances. Fine and aromatic oil extracted from certain plants.”

Over the years we accumulate, accumulate, accumulate, Knowledge, responsibilities, experience, friendship, property, a constant sum without stopping to think whether it’s worth, if the buildup is productive, if this accumulation is interesting or not.

All of the sudden we feel the need to get rid of these weights, the overhead and we quietly let go little by little, leaving behind the things that has left. Letting in touch our essence.

Hace lo que da la gana

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Hace lo que da la gana
Technique - Video
Duration - 2 minutes
Edition - Felipe Barros
Year - 2008

This video is a memory rescue of tough times when everything was forbiden, the meetings, the manifestation, the concerts, the watched schools and even the music was not allowed to be heard.

Present images and old sound tracks, take you to facts that happended many years ago.

Hace lo que La gana is a two minutes video that suggests a relationship in a public space, everything happens at the same time, the city routine, the streets, the passers by, street vendors, the traffic...and in this scenario a couple announce their intimacy.

This viedo shows in a gentle way and almost without importance average and daily attitudes experienced now, by the sound track forbiden to play on the radios 40 years ago, when people couldn’t do what they wanted.

Inside / Outside

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Inside / Outside
Technique - video
Production - David Spence, Marylin Reilly, Kathy O´Leary e Mark Bradley
Edition - David Spence
Duration - 4´36´´
Year - 2007

There were two videos at the same time, that took 4 minutes.

Both were recorded in the same day but in different places, Inside you can see a situation that only can be seen on the streets, and outside a situation that can be seen inside the house. The situation were changed.

The situation was inverted, the outside came inside and the inside, outside.The inside video was made/created at the old Sheehans Hotel and the outside on the streets some meters from there, both in Manorhamilton, Leitrim.

Come and GO

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Come and GO
Technique - Vídeo
Duration - 7'45''
Year - 2011
Images and edition Angella Conte

'One after another, behind each other,
Year after year, year after another,
Minute after minute, century
After centuries, still'
Fila Indiana, from O Calcanhar do Humano (1981)

This way, as it does now and as you did, you have to do it once again and still many times in this coming and going unnoticed...

Life is structured in repetitive cycles that lead us to the same pains, loves, joys and sorrows, by which we have passed and consign.

The fast come and go of the road emphasizes the life that goes on and on, runs, goes beyond, hits and always gives us more than a chance to pay attention to details. Who returns, whether good or bad.

Another time the same time

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Another time the same time
Technique - Video
Duration - 4.20 min
Year - 2010

This is a video with images recorded in the daily working environment of the artist.

It is captured day by day scenes, these same scenes are after projected, in this same environment another day during the artist’ work. New images are captured mixing them becoming one. At the same time the real and virtual.

Landscape that passes

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Landscape that passes
Technique - Video
Duration - 3.22 minutes
Edition- Angella Conte
Year - 2010

With images taken on a Sunday in the park, the artist takes us back to childhood through images and sounds.

The narrative is made with overlapping images and typical sounds of our dreams, making us going deep into our memories of landscapes that have passed.

Landscape 01

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Landscape 01
Technique - video
Duration - 5.59 min
Edition - Felipe Barros
Year - 2009

This video was part of a series of work related to landscape.

Recorded in the South of Minas Gerais, this video presented scenes taken from the window of an old building that is the headquarter of a farm that produces coffee.

It was captured the images in many different lights during a day in the fall, from the sunrise to the sunset with its noise and modification.

Landscape 02

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Landscape 02
Technique - Video
Duration - 4,47 min
Technique participation- Felipe Barros
Year - 2009

This video was part of the series of work related to landscape.

It was recorded in South of Minas Gerais, this video presented scenes taken in an old building that is the headquarter of a farm that products coffee.

The images show in a poetic way a rainy afternoon fall, a melancholic landscape that send us to the history of art where the painters with their palette at hand captured faithfully the images of the surroundings.

As the time passes by watching me stay

Author - Angella Conte
Title - As the time passes by watching me stay
Technique - Video
Duration - 6'08''
Year - 2010
Images - Angella Conte
Music - suonato da Francesco Turrisi
Edition - Angella Conte

"Things become tangible
insensitive to the palm.
But things rifts,
Much more than beautiful,
These will stay"
(Memory -- Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

The past is deconstructed in the course of the present, but can remain faithful to memory.

Return to a specific time through memories, pictures objects and imagination take us back to feeling already asleep by the time.

Love, happiness and sorrow, that remain in the present of a person that sew her image as an old dress that you want to keep.

This video shows the construction/deconstruction of thinking, imagination and memories surrounding life.

Through old photos, nostalgic first and then destroyed, the actions and the images show an attempt to rescue the past and at the same time the destruction of the past.

[re]meeting

Author - Angella Conte
Title - [re]meeting
Technique - Video
Duration - 2’
Year - 2010

Water, same structure different characteristics sound that mark and relax unite to form one of the most beautiful landscapes of Brazil

The meeting of Solimões and Negro rivers; so different in color and density. Here it shows through blurred boundary and marked the [re]meeting of Brazilians’ water.

Liquid Silence

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Liquid Silence
Technique - Video
Duration - 1’04’’
Year - 2010

Images taken through a space in the third floor in a building that is home of the city’s symphony. In this place can be seen a landscape outside and at the same time can be heard a pleasant music produced by the orchestra, interspersed by the silence outside and inside.

Testemunho

Author - Angella Conte
Title - Testimony
Technique - Video
Duration - 52 seconds
Trilha Sonora - Hélio Pisca
Edition - Felipe Barros
Year - 2009

Using the self-image, the artist turns time into testimony of life through many pictures obtained from old documents.

Each picture shows a period of time, and in this sequence the signs absorbed during 35 years can be observed in ten pictures.