Video Installation
3/4″ Umatic
From the Center is a video installation of twelve channels / monitors placed in a circle. It is a circular monument, a vision of Manhattan, a contemplation of natural and urban energies, evoking primitive architectures and ancestral symbols using multiple angles from macro to micro looking in different directions but always from the same fixed point (the roof of the loft where the artist was living at the time). …
30m
3/4″ Umatic
A collaboration with the musician Peter Van Riper, this 30 minute tape is an unedited action response improvisation between the sound performance and the camera work. A real collaboration was possible because of our shared concerns for attention to space and awareness of surroundings. This work deals with space and time / motion / sound in that space as a continuous, over-all, non-directional experience where surprises can happen. …
A description of Eshetu’s “Thunder and Lightning” for the Salso Film Festival. pdf here
‘In marcia su Roma’, Article from Panorama (date unknown) pdf here
Brief description and biography on Theo Eshetu and his works Thunder and Lighting, Lampi sull’acqua and Finche more non ci separi pdf here
Extract from B.Biasi, “Nuovo Cinema – La Carica dei trecento”, published in “Panorama”, n.981, 1985, …
The monumental, video sculpture «Les larmes d’acier» (Tears of Steel) consists of 27 monitors, 6 laser discs, and 6 laser-disc players, installed in a piece of black box architecture. Seen running in perfect synch on all the monitors are various images of athletic young men in the act of training their muscles. With their pronounced physiognomy and builds, they embody the type of muscle man considered a clone. The camera pans slowly over their faces, …
