“Flights” was inspired by Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality, where he explains how being gay was considered a “symptom” in the past. I like Foucault’s work because it emphasizes how dialogue can change internal and external lives. The idea for this video piece came to me when I was browsing through Hogarth’s prints, one depicting an 18th century asylum visit. I imagined a different character in the image, someone subjected to psychiatric “help” because of being gay. It is wonderful to see pseudo-scientific notions about gender, sexuality and identity recede into the past, being replaced by the freedom of expression.
Bio
Anne Gart is a visual artist, producer and film director based in the UK. Her haunting and surreal work references interactions between science and self. Anne Gart’s projects spring from multi-layered London environments. Her short arthouse films have been screened and awarded in many international festivals. Her films emphasize collaboration and explore formation of identity, multiple authorship and intersectional feminism.
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor: Anne Gart
Music: Usato, Nick Watson, Abstract Abstract, Jim Perkins, Blut Own
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.
