Four short pieces: three featuring anecdotes and conversations, the fourth an icy landscape.
| # | Title | Artists | Run Time | Year | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
Four Storeys | Donigan Cumming | 00:02:04 | 1999 | Canada |
| 2 |  |
Shelter | Donigan Cumming | 00:03:22 | 1999 | United States |
| 3 |  |
Trip | Donigan Cumming, Călin Dan | 00:15:00 | 1999 | Estonia, Netherlands |
| 4 |  |
Pétit Jesus | Donigan Cumming | 00:03:02 | 1999 | Canada |
The confession of a woman who took flight... A woman tells a tragic story straight to camera. The camera seems to be looking for the spot where the pain is, but the woman is too quick for the viewer.
This title is also available on Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and Doinigan Cumming: Four Short Pieces.
A conversation about marriage and horses between two unseen men.
This title is also available on Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and Donigan Cumming: Four Short Pieces.
Trip is inspired by the main oeuvre of architect Raine Karp--the concert hall designed for the city of Tallinn between 1975-1980. Considered the most important building realized in Estonia, Linnahall is a time capsule preserving the utopian ideas of centralized power and of egalitarian modernism, and an example of how architecture can stir public emotions in our times of corporate dominance.
A new episode in the Emotional Architecture series, Trip introduces Linnahall as an archaeological accident, as a stranded space ship and as a shrine for Soviet Union nostalgia. The voice of the architect, breaking facts about his ambiguous profession, the hallucinogenic wandering around the building, the nightmarish exploration of its guts--all are pleading for architecture as one of the drugs of this time, when drugs are part of life style. Tripping through architecture can be as fascinating as a night out--and potentially as dangerous.
The film pays tribute through its treatment and sound to Andrei Tarkovsky, and to his famous Sci-Fi failure, Solaris. While Linnahall was built for the glorification of the Moscow Olympics of 1980, some 500m from the construction site Tarkovsky was working on his masterpiece, Stalker.
Christmas Eve. A man alone finds someone he can talk to.
"Pétit Jesus, a man speaks in his native French about his loneliness, his desperate need for love. The content of his speech is a poem of his own creation which he holds in his hand (off-camera) and from which he recites. With tears and snot pouring from his face, and a voice wracked with sobs, his "performance" is compelling in its rawness, its stark honesty."
--Scott McLeod, Curator, Moving Stills, Gallery 44, Toronto, 2000
This title is also available on Donigan Cumming: Controlled Disturbance and Donigan Cumming: Four Short Pieces.