Girl in her Dressing Room

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interstitial manifesto #.003 (a manifesto in progress)

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Interstice: the space or time intervening...a space, especially a small or narrow one, between things or parts

Latin: inter (between) and sistre (to stand): to stand between

Interstitial art: any work of art whose basic nature falls between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media.


Arturo: It had become apparent to us that all the projects Sarah and I work on and plan are outside any clearly defined genres, and to pursue this work, the lifestyle we have unconsciously and consciously adopted ITSELF is very much in-between social norms.

This clip was shot the morning after an amazing day full of epiphanies about interstitiality - the illusiveness of defining that which is in constant transition (once it is defined, it is no longer purely itself), the head space needed to create interstitial work, the personal resolve we both have to explore it fully, and tons of ideas for new methods and artistic/cinematic forms.

Sarah: This 'interstitial' concept comes to me very naturally (I have been described by close friends as an anomaly), and I find it to be very exciting and important. And yes - the day before this shoot was incredible (until it devolved later, but that is another story)! I hadn't felt so inspired since the first pre-pro meeting that we had for B-17. It was like a month's worth of work was getting accomplished in a day. We had been planning on shooting a video manifesto to announce the festival, and that morning, in the space and time between the waking and dreaming worlds, I was flooded with ideas about how it should be communicated. One of these ideas was that in the middle of the video, I would be presented in this in-between state as an interstitial messenger, bringing the audience a pure and valuable message about the true essence of the concept. That was when we thought that this would all be accomplished in one video.

Arturo: Sarah spends a lot of her time in reverie -- the state between being asleep and awake, and is very comfortable in this state. As the surrealists were concerned with dreams and the subconscious, what of the "inarticulate conscious" -- that which we have no words or images for but of which we are aware. We are interested in this transitional space between dreams and reality.

I wanted to document Sarah's state of reverie and this video is of her just rousing from deep sleep. This attempt at first seemed to have failed, but in retrospect, we are not so sure of its lack of success.

Sarah: It was completely successful! It is a portrait of the beginnings of a process, which is just as much an artwork as any finished product (and certainly more important for our intended purposes).

Arturo: We are in the process of creating a kind of manifesto or perhaps more accurately a non-manifesto, attempting to define a space that can not be fully defined, but perhaps at best, may be rumored to exist. This is the beginning of that journey and the subsequent clips we will upload are an intrinsic part of this non-manifesto.

Sarah: An ANTI-manifesto! And yes, it is a "manifesto in progress" and ALWAYS will be. I am very excited about this format. And just listen to all those "I guess"es!

Arturo: The interstitial festival we are organizing is an effort to give a moment in space and time to the transitory.

Sarah: Join the movement in-between! It may or may not be refreshing, surprising, uncomfortable, confusing and FUN! Leap-year, 2008!

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[superbadlucre]

You know in the movies when the character says 'If my 14 year old self knew me now, he would hate me!'

If my 14 year old self could see me now, as a 'serious' person who's had his stupid drugs and drinking fun, and is now a guitar playing, kung-fu practicing computer programmer making a lot of money, a beautiful wife and 2 kids, expanding his mind with economics, math, science, fantasy, sci-fi - he would think I was pretty fucking cool. How about you?

[bseventeen]

I thought you were talking to me, but I see it was silverbackman. I think I would blow my 14 yr old self's mind. I don't think my 14 yr old self would have been capable of imagining to aspire to be the person I am right now. But she would be very happy ;)

[superbadlucre]

Well, where YOU are is so left of reality center that talking to you would be like trying to explain compound interest to a dolphin, with all that that entails. Silverbackman is just mistaken, you are off the grid.

[bseventeen]

Well i am not sure why you are over here in the first place. You really know nothing about me and what I am trying to do, but that's ok. Maybe we are not on the same 'grid', and that is ok too. Enough people understand my work on an intellectual level that comments like yours don't bother me at all. i wish you the best of luck in what sounds like a wonderful life :)

[Sudo209]

Odd...

[Cavemanjona1]

Sarah. You are an especially pungent example of whats wrong with the world of today. You have nothing of real substance to offer. You are obsessed with yourself, and spew nothing but non-sense. You're part of a massive cesspool movement of bored hippie wanna-bes grappling for attention through whatever unfortunate art medium fits your schedule. Do all real artists a favor and shut up.

[DEmmerik]

like wtf .. ?!

[superbadlucre]

Well, let's just all agree that the end result of your 'work' (haha!) is this:

Youtube Law 1:

Put a video camera in front of a chick, let her talk, and soon enough she will start crying.

I'm going to guess that wasn't your aim, but at least it's something we can all agree on.

[superbadlucre]

And what kind of 14 year old wouldn't be able to 'imagine to aspire' to making softcore porn for college droputs? Did your past-self spend a lot of time thinking about how awesome it would be to be a part-time H&R Block rep? I daresay your 14 year odl self would call the cops if she saw you OR silverback in her neighborhood.

[superbadlucre]

No, of course YOU don't care. But that's fine. So, being serious means you automatically don't know what you're talking about? I'll probably pick a 'serious' doctor to cure my presumed heart attack, rather than the guy who says 'don't be so serious, dawwg!'

No idea why you think I would have anything against pot. I'm all for it, I would love for it to be legalized. But that doesn't mean I want to be a pretentious hippie telling people the answer to everything is in expanding you mind with drugs.