{"id":300,"date":"2018-02-11T23:07:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T23:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=300"},"modified":"2024-07-19T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:28:02","slug":"waking-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/?page_id=300","title":{"rendered":"Waking Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bass mystifies the work of these plain folk with her own filmic magic.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div><style scoped>\r\n.embed-container { \r\n  position: relative;\r\n  padding-bottom: 56.25%;\r\n  height: 0; \r\n  overflow: hidden;\r\n  max-width: 100%px;\r\n  margin: 0px auto;\r\n} \r\n\r\n.embed-container iframe { \r\n  position: absolute;\r\n  top: 0px;\r\n  left: 0px;\r\n  width: 100%;\r\n  height: 100%;\r\n  padding-bottom: 0;\r\n}\r\n<\/style><div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/40871143\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n<p>A house in a primeval wood. A misfit family prepares a seasonal feast for visiting outlanders. They shuffle through ritual preparations, and shadows reveal each creature \u2014 one menacing, one wounded, one worn \u2014 stewards of old tradition, blood for blood.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Melika Bass.\u00a0 Co-produced by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.everyhousehasadoor.org\/\">Every house has a door<\/a>\u00a0performance group.<\/p>\n<p>Starring ensemble members Selma Banich, Mislav \u010cavajda, Stephen Fiehn, and Matthew Goulish.<\/p>\n<h4>Theatrical Film<\/h4>\n\n<p>16mm to video, color, sound, 2012, 34 mins.<\/p>\n<p>European Premiere, Torino Film Festival, Italy<\/p>\n<p>A United States Artists Project Site supported project<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usaprojects.org\/project\/waking_things\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cyclical time dilated to the maximum. . . loaded with details of Nature as <em>memento mori<\/em>, reminding us of the transience of this and of life itself.&#8221; &#8211;<em>Sentieri Selvaggi<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Video Installation<\/h4>\n\n<p><span class=\"style4\"><em>Requiem for Waking Things, <\/em><\/span>2012 MDW Art Fair<\/p>\n<p>A dual installation. Artist <a href=\"https:\/\/homashojaie.com\/home.html\">Homa Shojaie<\/a> constructs a painted, architectural structure made of canvas, frayed warps and wefts, paint, and other materials, each side a portrait of one of the characters in Bass&#8217;s film <span class=\"style7\"><em>Waking Things. <\/em>The film <\/span>plays inside on a loop.<\/p>\n<p>Structure materials: Steel pipe, frayed, knotted, and painted canvas<\/p>\n<p>Installation photos by Joseph Carr<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bass mystifies the work of these plain folk with her own filmic magic.&#8221; &#8211;Chicago Sun-Times A house in a primeval wood. A misfit family prepares a seasonal feast for visiting outlanders. They shuffle through ritual preparations, and shadows reveal each creature \u2014 one menacing, one wounded, one worn \u2014 stewards of old tradition, blood for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/?page_id=300\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Waking Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":276,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-300","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/300\/revisions\/1132"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tenderarchive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}