Video
video work: moment extended
moment extended arises from the need to look past the confines of traditional photography. I layer fixed and moving images and incorporated sound to allow the viewer to have an abstract yet tactile experience. Ocean waves or moving bodies beneath the water bring life to the still image. The videos’ rhythm and abstraction allows viewers to evoke their own feelings, stories and yearnings. The large scale of the works creates a poetic and immersive contemplative experience.
This work is an exploration of life’s transience and the suspension of time. After experiencing heart failure brought by Covid-19 - Lynn found herself sick and in-between life and death. Now coming out on the other side - this work is a meditation on what it means to exist in the spaces between life’s fleeing moments. Ghostly silhouettes emerge and dissolve at the threshold between the world of the living and a shadowy realm. Muted colors with vibrant bursts suggest the fleeting nature of human experience. A celestial expanse reveals a distant watchful eye of the moons - a self-observing from afar - detached yet intimately aware of the cycle of existence. There is uncertainty and the weight of unfulfilled potential, a tension between existence and absence.
whispers of stillness (2023)
rose colored afternoon (2023)
Part of an upcoming series. Video projection, loop, 2min
In the hushed sanctuary of this ethereal work, the essence of meditation and tranquility unfolds with poetic grace. Soft hues meld harmoniously to evoke a profound sense of serenity and peace.
trailer: roberto’s dream
excerpt: star spangled brighton beach
We are presented with a picture of a regular day on Brighton Beach. The beach goers are enjoying the sun and the sea while a woman in the foreground is looking intently at something in the distance... Meanwhile a whole other world is coming alive inside of her body as if on a canvas.
Trailer: The Other Shore
birth in birth out
"Birth In Birth Out" is part of "Life Notes" series by Lynn Bianchi.
Life Notes - is an ambient experimental film. This work is a video meditation on one’s existence. It arises from the need to look past the confines of traditional photography and use multimedia arts as a language to discuss the meaning of life and our ability to stop and contemplate.
Lynn Bianchi spent several weeks in Connecticut, photographing and filming her friend, artist Doug Rice. Lynn wanted to capture his larger-than-life spirit and restless personality. She felt that his joie de vivre, his hopes, and at the same time his sadness stood for something deep inside us all. A reminder that life is nothing but a circle, and, as they say, everything passes.
The result of that collaboration is Life Notes – an ensemble of experimental videos nestled in magical realism, depicting one’s strange and joyful existence. The film invites self-reflection and pulls the viewer into the dream-like sequences, inviting them to revel in their strangeness and calmness.
Life Notes is a celebration of life and death and passing of time. Sounds of distant music and falling rain draw the audience further in. How can we take the mundane and make it otherworldly for ourselves?
Here Lynn Bianchi creates an environment, where the audience falls into introspection with ease. One’s response to this ethereal imagery is deeply personal.
excerpt: By The sea
Part of the new meditative video installation series "Transcendent Reflections: Serenity in Motion"
Experience a visual symphony that invites contemplation, renewal, and a momentary escape from the outside world, as you embark on a transformative voyage of serenity and introspection.
trailer: new york minute
This work continues Lynn Bianchi’s relationship with New York City and its inhabitants - her home and inspiration since 1968. New York Minute was developed and created during lockdown - the year of loneliness and isolation - yet Lynn never felt lonely because the city was right outside her window - still alive and forever hopeful. A love letter to New York, this work is an abstraction of one day in the city - from dawn till dusk - moments that last a minute, or maybe a lifetime.
trailer: therapy dogs
Trailer: Life notes
Life Notes - is an ambient experimental film. This work is a video meditation on one’s existence. It arises from the need to look past the confines of traditional photography and use multimedia arts as a language to discuss the meaning of life and our ability to stop and contemplate.
Lynn Bianchi spent several weeks in Connecticut, photographing and filming her friend, artist Doug Rice. Lynn wanted to capture his larger-than-life spirit and restless personality. She felt that his joie de vivre, his hopes, and at the same time his sadness stood for something deep inside us all. A reminder that life is nothing but a circle, and, as they say, everything passes.
The result of that collaboration is Life Notes – an ensemble of experimental videos nestled in magical realism, depicting one’s strange and joyful existence. The film invites self-reflection and pulls the viewer into the dream-like sequences, inviting them to revel in their strangeness and calmness.
Life Notes is a celebration of life and death and passing of time. Sounds of distant music and falling rain draw the audience further in. How can we take the mundane and make it otherworldly for ourselves?
Here Lynn Bianchi creates an environment, where the audience falls into introspection with ease. One’s response to this ethereal imagery is deeply personal.
YaYa Sunglasses
Video layered within photograph. Color, audio, 4:43min, loop.
This multimedia art captures the visceral feeling of Coney Island. The sunglasses reflect not just a place but a feeling of a place in a moment of time.
This is a video art work that addresses the issue of ocean pollution: while we mindlessly use the nature's generous recourses, we ignore the environmental issues that keep piling up until they swallow us whole.
Idea and concept by Lynn Bianchi; Videography by: Lynn Bianchi; Editing by: Irina Abraham; Sound Design by: Irina Abraham and Frances Wang; Special Effects by: Frances Wang; Starring: Claire Petit; Vocals by: Allison Walters; Artistic Advisor: Robert Bianchi; The archival footage is by Parley for the Oceans.
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trailer: the waiting pool
2016, video on HD screen, variable dimensions. 2:57 minutes, color, sound.
The Pool is a result of my observation of people enjoying the sun and the water in a manmade space out in the middle of the sea. That natural pool placed far away from the shore had a sense of an elevated reality. The man in the water was captured on video “suspended,” floating for minutes at a time, while people enjoying this natural pool were photographed, frozen in the moment, all of them enjoying this universal communal and yet very individual experience of being present within the natural elements. A keen observer would also notice a school of fish that invades the corner of the pool like a dark shadow, creating an ominous presence and giving the peaceful moment an edge of danger. When I combined the still image and video, I recreated the feeling of suspension in time, a perpetual waiting that was actually present in the moment of my observation.
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trailer: pink into blue
When colors flow into each other they make something new, something unexpected - a place where two realities meet, the place where the whimsy and the absurd say hello on a beach. In Pink into Blue whimsy joins the reality of the everyday. The footage inspired an improvised dialogue, which was performed by actors and recorded to match the video. The result is a little slice of life that has both the mundane and magical.
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trailer: a prayer for the dead
2015, video on HD screen, w:57.1’’ h:33.4’’ d:4.4”, curved / HD video projection, ambiental installation. 7min 56sec, loop, color, sound.
In A Prayer for the Dead, subjecting the body to the purifying power of water evokes ideas and feelings of renewal and cleansing. This project started as an impulse to communicate through water. It slowly took form in its attempt to portray the universal experience of release. Unexpectedly, the work mirrored rituals of which I wasn’t aware, like the Buddhist funerals, where “water is poured into a bowl placed before the monks and the dead body. As it fills and pours over the edge, the monks recite: ‘As the rains fill the rivers and overflow into the ocean, so likewise may what is given here reach the departed’.”
Model: Dani K. Sound Design: Frances Wang Special thanks: Yana Birykova, Dani K, and Irina Abraham Chigiryov
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trailer: up down round and round
Mixed Media Installation. Materials: vinyl record custom made frames, iPads with HD video, sound, color, loop.
Up and down, round and round We should dance, we should shine Call me up any old time.
direction + cinematography – Lynn Bianchi; starring – Irina Abraham; post-production + sound mixing – Frances Yuan Wang; editing - Yana Birÿkova; original soundtrack - "Beechwood 4-5789" by The Marvelettes
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grasshopper
2016, video on HD screen / HD video projection, variable dimensions. 2:54 minutes, loop, color, sound.
Grasshopper is a HD looped video showing a couple leisurely enjoying a late afternoon on the beach. The interpretations of time, the meaning of space are explored the way one might bounce off one reality to the next while thrown into the chaos of alternative dimensions. The fragments of existence were reassembled, displaying incoherent timelines existing within a single digital video. “Time is supposed to be intangible and invisible, yet its signs are clearly visible all around us. We can sense the passage of time when we feel the wind blowing; we can see time flowing through the waves of the ocean, and the passage of time is embodied by our footprints in the sand – tracing the multiple trajectories of our frenetic activities. Like grasshoppers, sometimes we stop and we deceive ourselves with the idea that lying down while enjoying the world is all we should to do in our lives. It's a peaceful feeling, one of connection with the environment, but also one of disconnection from the struggles hidden within our environment. And then we start moving again, frantically struggling for a missed instant. Like jumping grasshoppers we navigate the world as if it were a hypertext. In this new digital world the classical idea of continuity is abandoned in favor of jumps and deviations from linearity: multiple layers are hidden within the most mundane views, and different timelines intersect each other in unpredictable ways.”
trailer: new york new york
2013-2015, rendering of the multimedia installation / video projection, w:60’’ h:34’’ d:5’’. 7min 49sec, loop, color, sound.
New York, New York focuses on the magic feelings and alchemic effects that transform a daily view of the Hudson river into a layered and complex video composition. As in a well-organized spectacle numerous little epiphanies slowly become part of a balanced composition. “The soundtrack is composed of two main audio tracks. I recorded the first one while contemplating the view, fascinated by a jazz musician practicing with his saxophone. The second one is composed by the voices of three friends of mine. I invited them to hum a few famous American melodies like “New York New York” and a few others. They recorded them in their apartments in NYC, and then sent them to me, to become part of a larger portrait of my city.”
Model: Samantha Harvey. Voices by: Irina Abraham Chigiryov, Isabel Hagen, Shay Blufarb. Special thanks to: Irina Abraham Chigiryov (sound), Olia Rogova, Nikolay Sviridchik and Brais Revaldería Prieto
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trailer: coney island allison
2013-2015, rendering of the multimedia work, w:40’’ h:60'’ d:5’’, 5:00 minutes, loop, color, sound.
This multimedia installation is composed of a photograph under layered plexiglass super imposed onto a HD screen, displaying video with sound. “In Coney Island Allison I play with the concepts of reality and non reality, questioning the elusive nature of images as documentation of both facts and ideas. At the same time I highlight our connection with the environment, referring to some of my recurrent underlying topics, such as the relationship between the eternal and the everyday and the tension between chance and the deliberate.”
Model: Allison Walters. Special thanks: Irina Abraham, Allison Walters and Daniel Belquer
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trailer: irina’s sunrise
2013-2015, rendering of the multimedia installation, w:42’’ h:54’’ d:4’, 2min 45sec, loop, color, sound.
Irina’s Sunrise was developed as a sort of visual poem, or as an ode to our inner sense of beginning. In this work the artist synthetizes several elements that are archetypically related to the concept of beginning and recurrent throughout her art practice, such as the sunrise, the beauty, the sense of peace, and the connection with the environment. “I wanted to create a layered multimedia composition able to convey complex and universal feelings in a simple and immediate way.”
Model: Irina Abraham Special thanks: Carlos Amaral Baptista, Irina Abraham and Stedroy Cleghorne.
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trailer: the sky, the man and the sea
2015, rendering of the multimedia installation / video projection, w:60’’ h:34’’ d:5’’, 16min 55sec, loop, color, sound. Video excerpt: 3min.
This large scale work can be presented as a video projection or a multimedia installation composed of a photograph on a plexiglass superimposed onto a digital monitor displaying video with sound. The work incorporates unusual depth and monumental dimensions achieving a particularly emotional effect. “The word emotion comes from the latin emovere, which is historically connected with the idea of movement. An eternal movement that moves the viewer emotionally and conceptually, and that the artist observes and try to preserve with his creation. In the presence of the work, the viewer can connect with a larger emotional landscape that embraces all of us and lives without and within; because we are all part of a larger spectacle.”
Special thanks: Irina Abraham Chigiryov, Brais Revaldería Prieto and Nikolay Sviridchik.
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excerpt: undivine comedy
2019, rendering of the multimedia work, 1:46 minutes, loop, color, sound.
Today’s world feels angrier and harder than ever before; an addiction to “plugging in” adds to a sense of acceleration, a hamster wheel of crisis and panic. Wouldn’t we all like to unplug? Wouldn’t we all like to take a deep breath? Wouldn’t we all like to fly to the moon? When I originally made this video, the idea was pure escape – better than a bathtub, better than a feather bed, better than any massage or fluffy set of slippers. I wanted to watch the woman in the cloud and really feel for a minute or two what it would be like to rise above the corporeal problems on the ground, stretch my body, close my eyes, and drift away. And for a while, that was enough. But soon I realized the woman separate from the world wasn’t sufficient for what we’re experiencing today. I started searching news sites and YouTube for clips of politicians duking it out on solid ground, so wedded to their egos and positions they’ve lost sight of the bigger picture. It didn’t take long to find many examples – more than I could use – from all over the world. We humans seem to have lost sight of the fact that we have a choice – life can be sweet, we can fly to the moon, we can close our mouths and eyes and just feel what it is to be alive. If only the politicians, the pundits, the money makers, the social climbers could take a breath and remember how the warm wind feels against the skin.
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sonata for seagulls
trailer: bubbles by the sea
c2017, video on HD screen / HD video projection, variable dimensions. 3:43 minutes, color, sound; first work in the Coney island Series.
A Billboard opens sharing fantasy of what is and what could be. Bubbles fly, Old bones travel, and children find their way. While on the sands are songs of love, Of moans and touching hands, While old bones travel, children frolic And the bubbles find their way.
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teaser: coney island triptych (wanderings by the sea)
The triptych captures a series of events happening in Coney Island. It describes a feeling about life through visual expression where planned and unplanned are merged into a surreal depiction. The ordinary in life is cherished and yet transformed into extraordinary through the artist’s eye.
Lynn Bianchi - direction + cinematography; Irina Abraham - starring + editing + sound; Frances Yuan Wang - editing + post-production + sound; Yana Birykova - post-production; design and mixing Danusia Trevino, Charles Sprinkle - voiceover; Olga Rogova - photo-editing; Under the Boardwalk by The Drifters - original soundtrack; Roberto Arcoleo - poem
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eternity
2013, digital frame, 3 layers, w:14’’ h:17’’ d:2,5’’, 5 min, loop, color, sound. Video excerpt: 3min
In this layered composition the artist merges a photo and a video that were taken in the exact same location in two slightly different moments. The concept of eternity, which gives the title to this work, has to do with the act of observing the environment as an eternal source of pleasure, relaxation, and fascination. At the same time the spectator becomes a part of that environment while highlighting its invisible geometry and symbolism. “I was fascinated by the subtle geometrical forces apparent in this view, and by the subtle humor permeating the entire scene. In my eyes, that man, completely absorbed in the act of looking, symbolically embodies all of us, since the beginning of time. Additionally, the idea of an altered time inspired the layering of the composition, where the different “times” of the video and the photo came together as one thing.”
Special thanks to: Nikolay Sviridchik, Olia Rogova, Irina Abraham Chigiryov and Carlos Amaral Baptista
the chair
trailer: the pool
2015, rendering of the multimedia triptych, w:42’’ h:28’’ d:5’’ each, (w:128’’ h:28’’ d:5’’ overall), 11min, loop, color, sound. Video excerpt: 3min.
This triptych is composed of layered photographs on a plexiglass superimposed onto three digital monitors displaying video with sound. The work incorporates unusual depth and monumental dimensions in order to achieve a particularly emotional effect. “This work came from my fascination watching people exercise at a Senior complex pool. Uninhibited, they graciously gave each other space and allowed themselves freedom to move unselfconsciously, exercising for hours on end, performing something that to my eye looked like a beautiful dance. I was the anonymous onlooker.”
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trailer: the observer
2015, rendering of the multimedia installation, w:48.5’’ h:17’’ d:5’’, 1 min, loop, color, sound.
This multimedia installation is composed of a layered image super imposed on a lightbox and two HD monitors displaying videos, combined in an asymmetrical triptych. “This artwork includes photo and videos that fragment anachronically a particular moment in time. This moment shows, in a post-anthropocentric perspective, the beauty and surprise that originated from the spontaneous interaction of humans and birds in a natural environment. With The Observer I also attempt to make people feel and see more clearly the greatness in the subtlety of such a magic moment.”
Special thanks: Irina Abraham, Brais Revaldería Prieto, Olia Rogova, Aria Weltzer and Emilio Vavarella
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