IDEAS METHOD LOOK FOR A FALLEN FILM SARAH MILES

Animals have a territory and humans have an unconscious.

Jean Baudrillard 

And Cinema is the royal road to the cultural unconscious

 Jack Goldstein

‘A cat is never on the side of power.’ Chris Marker

Heavenly Pussy will map associations and analogies to correspond to the logic and history of cinema from Etienne Jules Marey’s experiments in moving image which now appear on Youtube to an intervention with the MGM logo where the big cat is replaced with a small Siamese kitten who wanders out of the frame. Filming with a red filter creates a kind of photographic darkroom birthing images.

The appearance of the cat presents an animist interest in the secret and sensual life of animals.

If terror corrodes social bonds and fragments people, cinema is a medium whose purpose is to produce relationality across discontinuity. Narrative is an interwoven intricate network of possibilities between the viewer and the film, allowing for a kind of free association embracing the eros of language. This avoidance of totalizing representations allows us to recognize the transcendence of the other. Personal history becomes a history of multiple selves both discontinuous and complexly implicated with each other.

TECHNIQUE
HEAVENLY PUSSY continues the work I did in No Place where my subjective document of dvcam was used as a counterpoint to staged filmic references that resonated.

HEAVENLY PUSSY SARAH MILES 2004

He drew a kiss on the dirty window

The fallen apple tree (Hal)

Berlin Joseph Beuys