into the pill - Issue 2

Nina Kotamanidou [info]

Between You And Me, MiniDV, 6min.51sec. 2003

A cherished childhood experience and how this can be used with regard to the splentour of TV-made video imagery was the initial idea for this event. For that reason my inspiration was TV programmes that, in order to provide up-to-date entertainment, present celebrities that relate personal information from their houses. While making it I could sense that as much as this homemade video aspired to televised status it stayed tied to a self completely homebound, ordinary, unglamorous but true. This delicate balance between the -always personal- depth of a memory and the self that it carries and the relentless flatness of televised imagery provided me with the framework where I revised the ever-eager TV modality for incidental yet bombshell disclosure and the modes of televised portraiture set aside for viewing celebrity privacy.