Projections Series: Film and Video Program

Kelly Richardson, Exiles of the Shattered Star, 2006.
High-definition colour video loop, 29 min 51s, sound, 5/5.
Collection of the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal.
Photo: Courtesy Birch Libralato.

Recent film and video output is rich and diverse. Many artists from a wide variety of backgrounds—video makers, visual artists, photographers, playwrights, choreographers and composers—are drawn to the poetic power of the image projected on the big screen. Projections also refers to the energy of a thrust forward, toward the future of the moving image.

Kelly Richardson
May 6 to June 28, 2009
Beverley Webster Rolph Hall (lower level)

Kelly Richardson’s Exiles of the Shattered Star, recently acquired by the Musée, will be screened as a solo presentation. Exiles of the Shattered Star is a video lasting almost 30 minutes shown as an unending loop. In June 2006, Richardson filmed a sunrise in the Lake District, England, a region famous for the staggering beauty of its landscape. Into this fixed-sequence, almost unreal, footage the artist inserted a rain of fireballs, composing a surrealist picture that demonstrates her love of the eerie. The title, Exiles of the Shattered Star, suggests a distant catastrophe, the explosion of a star whose fragments have come to “find exile” in this corner of paradise. Kelly Richardson was born in Burlington, Ontario, in 1972. Since 2003, she has lived and worked in Gateshead, England.