Deniz Uster
  • Deniz Uster
  • work
    • lens-based >
      • Homo-Scylla
      • The Polity of Φ promotional video
      • Beyond is Before
      • 69
      • Being an Ear Guest to a Gossip
      • Prelude
    • space-based >
      • Citadel (Bricolages)
      • Citadel
      • The Polity of Φ: The Consulate
      • The Polity of Φ: The Call
      • Beyond is Before installation
      • The Spine That Binds Us Together
      • Folly for the Short-Lived
      • Türgen Culture and Heritage
      • Somewhere in the Middle of Two, Southwest of One and North of The Other
      • Looking For a Needle in a Hay-Barn With No Eyes and No Hands
      • Invited and Volunteered
      • In the Memory of Four
      • Finger to a Blind Eye
      • Hide the Straw, Wait for its Time
      • Egg Washing Machine
      • A Machine or an Ifrit
      • Said and Put
    • paper-based >
      • mixed-media
      • ink
      • pencil
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being an ear guest to a gossip

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Being an Ear Guest to a Gossip
invokes a sacrifice of the utilitarian and the valuable into the futile and the insignificant. The edible becomes noxious, and the organic slips into the synthetic. Vaguely familiar rituals, and more specific forms that stem from Anatolian Turkish folklore, are then fused with the curiously antithetical nature of Uster's experience of Scotland to bring fragments of a very different context of post-industrial terrain and lush, scenic beauty to her work.
       
The film allows us to witness the daily labour of a diminutive epicene creature. This beast is focused upon its various tasks as it plants blue potatoes, gathers psychedelic gloop from the forest and finally harvests what appears to be a crop of rocks. Who is this creature, and why is it so intent on such actions?


Written/Directed:
Deniz Uster
Producer/Executive Producer: Deniz Uster
Director of Photography: Tobias Wootton
Assistant Director: Tom Harrup


HD Film, 19.51 minutes, 16:9, 2010




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