[Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Meditative Practice

[Gabriele Jutz]

I suggest Transit(ive) by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Bliss (HD video created from 16mm projection performance with digital sound, recorded on digital video. 06:36.  2017).

 

In her artist statement, Sarah Bliss describes herself as “a filmmaker, artist, educator, and Buddhist practitioner who facilitates presence and attunement with the sensate, desiring body.” 

Transit(ive) is the result of the artist’s manual interaction with the projector lens, while the soundtrack presents a cell-phone recording of her father’s dying breath. The act of expiration, literally “breathing out,” is associated with death. Transit(ive) is a video document of death and loss, as well as a techno-spiritual reunion with the artist’s father following his death.

 

Here you can find more about Transit(ive): https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3775230/3775231

(chapter “Lungs to Ears”)

 

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Hon. Prof. Mag. Dr. Gabriele Jutz
Universität für angewandte Kunst
Abteilung für Medientheorie

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https://dieangewandte.academia.edu/GabrieleJutz

 

 

 

 

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Datum: Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2025 um 06:23
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Betreff: Re: [Frameworks] Avant Garde Film and Yoga

 

Well, there are a fair number of avant garde films that ARE yogic/meditative/spiritual practices in form somehow without PHOTOGRAPHING such practices as they exist in the real world [or as we say in the biz (sic) "the pro filmic event"]

Paul Sharits: Mandala Films

Ernie Gehr: Serene Velocity*

John and James Whitney 

(and others germane to The Center for Visual Music)

Scott Bartlet: Off/On

Anthony McCall

Several shorts in The FluxFilm anthology, though 'Zen for Film' might not qualify depending on how you take it. 😉

 

In some cases the artists expressed some meditative/spiritual intent. In others, it kinds works out that way regardless. The cited above are just what comes to my mind at the moment. There are more for sure...

 

If you were curating a program on your stated theme, you might mix these formal examples with representational ones in interesting ways an audience might appreciate.

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