CHRISTOPHER ERNST
FILMMAKER
VIDEO ARTIST
MEDIA ARTIST
BOXING THE COMPASS (2008)
- HD/16mm Film 45:00
- Multichannel Installation 15:00 Loop
- Singlechannel Installation 15:00 Loop
Boxing the Compass explores conflicting environments of cinema and the “real” world through a fractured narrative that depicts one nameless woman’s struggle to navigate the spaces of her everyday environment.
15 MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE (2008)
- Video Series 15:00
- Multichannel Installation 5:00 Loop
15 Minutes into the Future creates a world of magical futurism, depicting televisual transmissions of mysterious tableaus that re-imagine everyday environments as strange and fantastic spaces.
THREAD (2008)
- Multichannel Installation 4:00 Loop
Thread characterizes the workings of the human mind through psychological video surveillance, depicting conflicting image-feeds on three separate video screens; each channel representing different conscious, subconscious, and unconscious levels of awareness.
TERMINI (2007)
- Video 3:45
- Singlechannel Installation 3:45 Loop
Collaboration w/ G.A. Rhodes. A bizarre journey told through a point-of-view perspective, traversing a dream world of underwater industrial landscapes inhabited by huge belly button tunnels and underwater trains.
WHITE DWARF (2008)
- Multichannel Installation 3:35 Loop
Building on the foundational video art concept of video-as-mirror, “White Dwarf” creates a dialectic of “authentic” images of an everyday environment contrasted with fantastic, “mirrored” versions of the same space.
GENEALOGY PROJECT (2006)
- Video/16mm Film 9:52
Genealogy Project navigates the recollection processes of an individual reflecting upon the suicide of a family member by using the four major points of a compass – North, South, East and West – as symbolic points of reference.
ET IN ARCADIA EGO (2007)
- Performance for Videotape/Cello 10:50
A collboration with composer w/Otto Muller. Based on the Latin phrase that titles pastoral paintings by Nicolas Poussin, idealized tableaus of classical antiquity, depicting shepards clustering around an austere tomb.
REMAINS OF A WALL (2007)
- Intermedia Performance for Video 5:50
Remains of a Wall documents an intermedia performance representing the allegorical intersection of distorted audio and visual signals with the sensory experience of perceiving spatial ruin in a physical environment.
IMMEDIATE MONUMENT (2007)
- Multichannel Installation 15:00 Loop
Immediate Monument charts the downtrodden urban spaces of the American Rust Belt using the moving image as a tool of cartography, navigating everyday structures of the city as a monument to America’s immediate and crumbling present.
SEARCH & DESTROY (2007)
- Intermedia Performance for Video 8:50
Search & Destroy documents an intermedia performance that utilizes a number of coded media “objects” to address the status of mediated spatial experience and the relationship of degradation (or ruin) to a nostalgic experience.
*Live Intermedia Performance 13:10
ATLAS (2005)
- Video 3:00
Atlas works as both a video essay and landscape film, using the visual language of cinema to discover spatial connections between disparate territories, creating a composite map of the "in-between" spaces within everyday environments.
I AM SORRY. I CANNOT GET TO SLEEP. BECAUSE I AM HOMESICK. (2006)
- Video/16mm Film 1:41
I Am Sorry. I Cannot Get to Sleep. Because I am Homesick. explores a visual representation of nostalgic memory by flattening disparate film and video images from differing times and locations into a composite expressionist image.
FORK (2007)
- Video/16mm Film 3:41
- Singlechannel Installation 3:41 Loop
Fork plays on the notion of divergent visual aesthetics in film and video acting as controlling forces in a viewer’s identification of mediated physical space.
HOLIDAY (2005)
- Video/16mm Film 13:50
An estranged couple goes on holiday, hiking through a series of banal and ruined everyday landscapes. Each site they visit possesses a strange resonance that prompts them to act out intense emotional responses.