On films and videos by Deirdre Logue, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

06.11

On films and videos by Deirdre Logue, Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan

By Jenny Bisch

2009
Winnipeg Film Group

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There are worlds of moving images out there that flout the conventions of television and Hollywood. Made with tiny (sometimes solo) creative teams, they connect with audiences at the individual level — as opposed to ‘the masses’ — giving us an intimate look into the minds of the artists behind them.

Rather than deploy the tired tropes of cinematic illusion to represent narratives, these hand-crafted images express colour and shape, light and darkness with dense, imperfect, and human qualities.

They seek a connection to the world off the screen. An experimental film or work of video art often uses nonsensical and absurd imagery to make that connection.