Kate Moross

Floria Sigismondi

Postmortum Bliss.
In homage to Rebel Without A Cause, Sigismondi recasts Nicholas Ray's portrayal of the turbulence and pain of adolescence in a modern light. Today, institutions and their educators often diagnose these pains and confusions as a mental disorder. Postmortem Bliss is a film about the over-medicated, addicted, and misdiagnosed generation of today.
I have always been a huge fan of her work, and she has a very distinstive reconginsable style to go wiht her works. Apart from her art exhibitions, she is best known for directing music videos for The Tea Party, Interpol, Incubus, Christina Aguilera, Muse, Billy Talent, The White Stripes, Sigur Rós, Sheryl Crow, The Cure, Björk, Amon Tobin, Marilyn Manson, Living Things and David Bowie. Her trademark dilating, jittery camerawork, noticeable as early as her video for Manson's The Beautiful People, has been replicated by a great number of directors since.
In her childhood she became obsessed by drawing and painting.When she took a photography course, she became obsessed once more, and graduated with a photography major.

Floria Sigismondi started a career as a fashion photographer. She came to directing music videos when she was approached by the production company The Revolver Film Co., and directed music videos for a number of Canadian bands. Her very innovative, but also very disturbing video works, located in sceneries she once described as "entropic underworlds inhabited by tortured souls and omnipotent beings", attracted a number of very prominent musicians.
She creates a hyper-surrealism based on the figure, using images derived from hallucinatory dream-states. Her videos mix seamlessly with her photography series, and her photographic images translate naturally into mixed-media forms. Sigismondi's images exist in a theatre setting that is both narrative and starkly visual, revealing the poetic and sometimes macabre world.

She explores the effects of science on our contemporary experience of the body and describes an undefined possibility for the future; with our current advances in biotechnology, it poses a possibility that is frightening, complex, mysterious and compelling.


Sidur Ros - Untitled 1

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Darkroom print outs 25/01/08

Taken on my Digital photography workshop, though instead we started to work on wet photography. I previosuly did photography for one of my A Levels, and i manily wored with wet imagery. So to me this was a real treat to go back to the dark room and have a recap and get back into it, i used to literally be obsessed with my photography when i was doing my A Levels and spend most of not all my free time in the schools rather small cramped darkroom.
Anywho this session reminded me what i was missing since now my work is mainy digital based, reminding me of the satistsfacting of watching the developement of your own prints.



We were given a day project breif, my question was, 'What is beauty?' and we had to come up with the answer and present it wihtin a photograph by 3.00pm. I wanted to represent the society within we live in current obsession wiht looking good, this lead me onto plastic surgery and what we do, our rituals and time wasting into what we percive, 'looking'.