Alma Moos-Nuñez is a visual artist born and raised in New York City and is currently based in Vienna. The artist received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and is at present working towards a diploma at The Academy of Fine Art Vienna. Alma Moos-Nuñez works primarily with video, drawing, and sculpture, using her own body, the conditions of the home, and the boundaries of both of these spaces, as central points of reference for the work.
Sysnopsis
Tunnel Visions is a non-narrative short film that describes internal and external perceptions of the body through sight, time, and scale. The body itself is juxtaposed against its movement through the world: it is not only the constant of your own body as a landscape and an architecture in itself, but also its stillness in the face of constant motion, the world continues, and the body is a living/dying thing that sits on trains and drives cars: every touch is so slow and the trees move by too fast. The film begins and ends with long sequences of trees moving quickly as seen through the window of a train. The trees come in and out of focus and themselves become abstracted by the speed of the train passing, at once clear the viewer is moving past them, and at other times it appears as though the greenery is simply a shifting image not moving one way or the other, simply changing. Between these sequences appears the body as seen through two illuminated tunnels. The limbs and bodies at the end of these tunnels are abstracted through their closeness and isolation from the larger body. The concept of the film is loosely inspired by two dichotomous therapeutic practices attempting to achieve the same or similar outcome: the first directs one in the face of anxiety, dissociation, and panic attacks to focus on one part of the body that touches something tangible and external, for example, the bottom of your feet and the rug they press against; the second practice looks to do the opposite; one should focus all thought away from the part of the body that feels disassociated from the whole and imagine cars going by or the birds in the sky. Both practices attempt recenter, and refocus thoughts so as to bring oneself out of the previously mentioned states of anxiety, dissociation, and panic.
Tunnel Visions
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Biography
Alma Moos-Nuñez is a visual artist born and raised in New York City and is currently based in Vienna. The artist received her BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and is at present working towards a diploma at The Academy of Fine Art Vienna. Alma Moos-Nuñez works primarily with video, drawing, and sculpture, using her own body, the conditions of the home, and the boundaries of both of these spaces, as central points of reference for the work.
Sysnopsis
Tunnel Visions is a non-narrative short film that describes internal and external perceptions of the body through sight, time, and scale. The body itself is juxtaposed against its movement through the world: it is not only the constant of your own body as a landscape and an architecture in itself, but also its stillness in the face of constant motion, the world continues, and the body is a living/dying thing that sits on trains and drives cars: every touch is so slow and the trees move by too fast. The film begins and ends with long sequences of trees moving quickly as seen through the window of a train. The trees come in and out of focus and themselves become abstracted by the speed of the train passing, at once clear the viewer is moving past them, and at other times it appears as though the greenery is simply a shifting image not moving one way or the other, simply changing. Between these sequences appears the body as seen through two illuminated tunnels. The limbs and bodies at the end of these tunnels are abstracted through their closeness and isolation from the larger body. The concept of the film is loosely inspired by two dichotomous therapeutic practices attempting to achieve the same or similar outcome: the first directs one in the face of anxiety, dissociation, and panic attacks to focus on one part of the body that touches something tangible and external, for example, the bottom of your feet and the rug they press against; the second practice looks to do the opposite; one should focus all thought away from the part of the body that feels disassociated from the whole and imagine cars going by or the birds in the sky. Both practices attempt recenter, and refocus thoughts so as to bring oneself out of the previously mentioned states of anxiety, dissociation, and panic.
Link
https://youtu.be/ISfVLGUO5oc