Reading Patterns

Reading Patterns is a video series : TO READ IN A BLACK ROOM, 2017, 7 min 28 sec READING PATTERNS TOGETHER, 8 min 15 sec, 2016 and THIRD READING, 2017, 11 min

In this series, strangers brought together by a mysterious package attempt to unravel their relationship to each other. What follows is a constellation of found footage and a cinematic collection, punctuated by performances and recreations for the camera. Through altering points of view from these two characters’ positions, the narration guides us through these images of repetitive actions, rituals, desires and projections. Engaging with ideas from The Hour of the Star (Clarice Lispector) and The Space of Literature (Maurice Blanchot) the work engages with with the literary experience, but it also brings together a collage of cinematic history. Particularly notable because of their approaches to cinematic presence are Barbara Loden, an actress and director of the 1970 film Wanda and Juliet Berto, an actress in films by Jean-Luc Godard and Jacques Rivette, as well as a director (Neige 1980), Throughout the work we are presented with distinct spaces that want their own definition, but are understood only in parallel with another. It travels repeatedly across two spaces– the interior life of reading and the exterior experience of watching (cinema), the definition of the self and the adulation of the other, and the structures of language that guide our experience and its gaps that escape our understanding.

Presented at LUX in (2017), Dazibao (2017), WRO Biennale 2019