User:Tessel
ABOUT
Tessel Schmidt (1983, NL) is a video artist who makes macro landscapes in which she sets up situations and then leave these to develop organically with the camera and subjects in a dialogue in which her control and presence are no longer required. She interviews people, build small set-ups with (liquid) materials, gathers images, investigates, and experiment in the edit with all these ingredients to eventually try to catch a feeling or come to an essence of the subject. She moves between the everyday and the spiritual by pointing her camera on everyday liquid materials, combining this with a chosen soundscape. With her films she stages a space with elements from reality. Her films are open ended and run in a loop. In the edit, but also playing with video projection or multiple screens in the exhibition space, the work will take shape.
www.tesselschmidt.nl
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WORK
PROJECTS
- BARDO: While a freediver holds her breath underwater for 4,5 minutes we can be there together with her in the inbetween phase.
- Elck syn Waerom: A search for the WHY in life among a group of people named Tessel, who where all at the same place 25 years ago to celebrate the life of famous female poet Tesselschade Roemer-Vischer.
- Skaftafall: A changing snow landscape
- Ubuntu House visits: Interviewing and trying to depict humanly asylum seekers and illigal immigrant who visit the Ubuntu House. The Ubuntu house is a sanctuary where they can eat, talk or even play cards together.
- WASH: A 5 minutes trip where you can get lost in your own imagination.
- Shadow flicker: Video installation about the phenomenon of shadow flicker, the flickering effect caused when rotating wind turbine blades periodically cast shadows into the nearby houses. This project is temporarily on hold.
- Fishermen: Installation about the patience fisherman have during the act of fishing. The installation depicts Dutch fisherman in various landscapes in Utrecht who invest time in catching a fish for a photo. This project is submitted for funding for 900 years Utrecht.