Kara Hearn (US)

Video still from: 14 scenes reincarnated, E.T., 2005

VIDEO FOR DEADPAN EXCHANGE I

"14 Scenes Reincarnated", digital video, TRT 28:50, 2005-2006

VIDEO FOR DEADPAN EXCHANGE II

"Three Scenes Reincarnated", TRT: 8:56 video, NTSC, color, sound,
Star Wars episode III, 2 minutes 30 seconds, 2005
E.T., 1 minute 27 seconds, 2005
Fame, 4 minutes 59 seconds, 2006

BIO

Kara Hearn is an interdisciplinary video artist. She works with the stuff of popular entertainment to map the complexities of various emotional states, such as fear, melancholy, courage, obsession. She studies these conditions and builds intimate and absurd narratives to understand them by. Her work has shown at venues such as White Columns in New York, Pacific Film Archive, New Langton Arts, the Walker Art Center, Dallas Video Festival, and the Festival Tous Courts International Festival of Cinema. She recently received an MFA in Art Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

www.karahearn.com