Self-Summoning
2019
3:11
HD digital video, digital animation, found footage, found and recorded sound.
Featured at Centrally Isolated Film Festival in Ithaca, New York in April 2020.
On view at ‘Kitsch Summer Blowout’ juried online exhibition at onlineplayroom.art - September 2020.
In this video-documented performance, the performer expands upon the inherent invisible language of ritual to include their audience with the aid of self-aware humor and animation. With each layered addition, the metaphorical function of action and sacred performance appears on screen, allowing the viewer to enter into magic and interact with the blurred boundaries of the material world with insistent belief.
Filmed by Aidan Spann.
Performance by Ellery Bryan.
Post-production and sound by Ellery Bryan.
