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Xenoi

Deborah Stratman

2016 00:15:20 Greece, United StatesEnglishColorStereoHD video

Description

The Greek island of Syros is visited by a series of unexpected guests. Immutable forms, outside of time, aloof observants to our human condition.

"Panoramically panning across beaches, caves and seascapes, Stratman shows a series of landscapes devoid of inhabitants, before inexplicably filling each space dramatically with a host of computer-generated, levitating, diamond-shaped objects that shimmer with light and radiate color. These structures, generated to conform to some kind of oblique mathematical formula, oscillate their form to an audience of none, alongside a host of disorientating, bellowing sound effects."

— Matt Turner, Documentary Magazine, 2017

About Deborah Stratman

Filmmaker Deborah Stratman works in a territory between experimental and documentary genres.  In her films and frequent work in other media, including drawing, sculpture, sound, photography and small press, she explores the history, uses, mythologies and control of highly varied landscapes, from Muslim Xinjiang China to suburban southern California. Her recent work addresses American constructs of Freedom, the junction between technology and faith and contemporary locations of the supernatural. Stratman teaches in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

Stratman was the subject of a mid-career retrospective,The Thing Unnamed, at MoMA New York in 2013.