Carry on and on, 2009, 4:10 min

Produced, directed and edited by Deborah Wasserman

THINGS(CAME) (AND WILL) DISAPPEAR, 2002
Stills from video, 6:35 min

THINGS (CAME) AND WILL DISAPPEAR, 1997, 6:35 min

I see Things coming to me but in fact they are not moving at all. Today, they appear a certain way. Tomorrow they appear a different way or disappear  altogether.

In life, there is an illusion of continuity, progress, and therefore -accumulation. "In the beginning of the journey there were two suitcases." But, if we were to screen the movie backwards, we would witness a narrative of elimination (of moments, of hours, of meaning, of activity, reducing everything to zero).

Music excerpted from "In the Shadow of the Phoenix" by Pauline Oliveros and Randy Rainr Reusch.

The video Things was shot in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the summer of 1997. 

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(UN)STILL LIFE, 2003
Video Still: 5:50 min

The installation (Un)Still Life is based on the Frida Kahlo painting Viva La Vida (Long Lives Life!) This painting shows a lush display of fruits and vegetables, with stuffed animals and a bride-doll. It symbolizes cycles in our lives (growth, ripening and decay) which are formed by constant change. Inspired by this painting Deborah recreated the same tableau with real objects, then filmed and animated it on video. In (Un)Still Life the fruits and vegetables shed parts of themselves as they are cut and transformed. To further examine the relationships between the still and the moving images, Deborah created 104 small panels based on each animated transition. The complete installation includes the paintings and the video.

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SAVAGE CROPS, 1994

A video piece, 10:38 min

Savage Crops is a story about the transition between childhood and adulthood.  It employs three seemingly separate characters who represent different stages of life, as well as various aspects the individual’s psyche.  The blooming of sexuality brings about a destructive hunger for discipline and control.  These conflicted personality aspects find their point of integration around the notion of fertility,

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YOUR NIPPLES DO NOT RESPOND, 1995

A video piece 10:15 min

The body can be viewed as an imaginary landscape, mapped and coded by gender conventions. A woman's yearning to explore the feminine aspects in her male partner fails, since she imposes a threat on his sense of identity. He searches for playmates  (creatures and beasts representing anima) outside of the relationship.

His body becomes her battleground "Your nipples do not respond......"