Platonic

Dani Leventhal ReStack

2013 | 00:20:40 | United States | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | HD video

Collection: Single Titles

Tags: Love, Mental Landscape, Portrait

In Dani Leventhal’s Platonic, geometric specters twirl in space; pet cats foam at the mouth; a little boy mistakes his junkie dad for a superhero; and a confused adolescent worries he has sired a centaur. Platonic references both the ancient philosopher’s metaphysics of ideal Forms, which simultaneously exist outside our perceptions and yet give rise to them, and the related meaning in common parlance of non-romantic love. Leventhal trains her searching lens on the distance separating bodies, moments, and perspectives. The result is a study in the awkward gaps between appearance and reality, seeing and understanding, desire and its object.

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Exhibitions + Festivals

51st New York Film Festival, Views From the Avant Garde, New York, NY, 2013

Urban Video Project - Everson Museum of Art, Platonic, Syracuse, NY, 2013