Arteles Catalogue 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
Arteles Creative Center's residency artists and their projects 2023-2020
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Back to Basics program / AUGUST <strong>2023</strong><br />
France Rreally<br />
USA<br />
www.france-rreally.com<br />
About<br />
France Rreally is a multimedia artist working with video<br />
art, documentary, performance, and fabric to reflect the<br />
reality of constant change and the personal agency it makes<br />
possible. He uses accessible materials like consumer digital<br />
cameras, handmade sets, and found ephemera to guide<br />
journeys between banal everyday life and ridiculous digimagical<br />
fairytale worlds. With a world in flux, systems can<br />
be undermined, human identity and form is fluid, and reality<br />
itself is complex and customizable--empowering users to<br />
take what's in reach to create their ideal lives.<br />
He is a member of the NYC/Philadelphia film and video art<br />
collective Krissy Talking Pictures and has performed and<br />
screened his work online and around North America and<br />
Europe including at BRIC Arts Media, the Hudson Valley<br />
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sameheads Berlin, and<br />
various film festivals such as Film Diary NYC, Antimatter<br />
Media Art, and Cactus Club Independent Film Festival. He is<br />
based out of Brooklyn, NY, where he is always becoming and<br />
re-becoming himself.<br />
Movie storyboarding and filming<br />
Most of my time during the residency was spent on the<br />
earliest stages of an upcoming movie I’m creating. I spent<br />
the first two weeks of the month coming up with an idea,<br />
creating a workable storyboard, making costumes and<br />
gathering props, then the last two weeks filming, filming, and<br />
more filming.<br />
While I had wanted to come prepared with an original<br />
idea and hit the ground running, it took arriving at <strong>Arteles</strong><br />
and experiencing the surroundings without a cellphone<br />
or internet for the story to reveal itself. I sewed original<br />
costumes for the three central characters out of found fabric<br />
and free clothing. I shot footage in the forest, on the road,<br />
by the lake, and in front of a green screen, and was lucky<br />
to share the screen with a few other enthusiastic residents<br />
who helped me bring my ideas to life. With every element of<br />
the movie, I encouraged myself to follow my intuition. I was<br />
striving to trust the story I was creating and allow meaning<br />
to emerge from the ideas instead of the other way around.<br />
Then, what started as disjointed images in my mind gradually<br />
revealed themselves to be springing from the same source<br />
as cohesive components of a larger picture.<br />
Though I have a long road until the project is finished, it is<br />
invaluably steeped with the lively worlds I experienced in and<br />
around the forest, moments of present awareness, and the<br />
support of those I met in my time at <strong>Arteles</strong>.