Fragile documents a fictitious natural environment while reflecting on our reality- the climate crisis, extreme weather and melting events, and irreversible changes to glaciers, sea ice, and landforms. This experimental film includes landforms constructed of burnt paper ash and repetitive human actions within ephemeral structures. These recurring movements blur the line between causing harm and struggling against impending loss.
Bio
Allison Roberts, a lens-based artist and experimental filmmaker, layers still and moving images and explores fleeting intersections of image and surface through projections, performative interactions, and alternative methods of image construction. Roberts’s work has been selected for numerous international film festivals and exhibited in Chinese Gan Jue, South China Museum; Glimpses of a Drowned World, Aggregate Space Gallery (CA); Traces of the Future, Momentum Gallery (Poland); ROMBAK, Multimedia University (Malaysia); Movements, Moments, Target Gallery (VA); and Contemporary Landscape, CICA Museum (South Korea). Born and raised in Oklahoma (U.S.), Roberts holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved.
Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.
