In 2008, The Images Festival and Charles Street Video teamed up to offer year-long residencies to five mid-career and established artists. Proposals were submitted in the spring of 2008 and winners were announced at the awards ceremony of the 2008 Images Festival. Given the theme of “curse”, the winning artists were left to produce a work that interpreted this in any way they saw fit. One year on, we are presented with the results, which range from Argentinean altars to Greek mythology.
Sat 11 Apr 2009 1:30pm – 2:30pm @ Joseph Workman Theatre
Ariadne’s Thread Director: Sarah Shamash
This experimental short film takes its name from the Greek myth wherein Ariadne falls in love with Theseus who seeks to kill the Minotaur in Daedalus’ labyrinth. Clever Ariadne gives Theseus a ball of red thread so that he may find his way out of the labyrinth after killing the Minotaur. The path of the artist/filmmaker is as convoluted as the labyrinth itself, as is each person’s life trajectory. From one architectural maze to another, the red thread leads the viewer on a journey that weaves in and out of a dream like state and an occasionally intrusive present reality.
