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Huskies
David Sprecher,
Lilli Carré
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Enjoy the resistance. Follow the leader.
In our film, we pulled language from our current political climate and from the imperative voice of water aerobics instruction. At times the film’s subjects enact a trance-like obedience to the film’s guide, performing the instruction with military coherence. At other times the subjects are passively disobedient like distracted animals at a training.
Huskies emerged from our shared attraction to the aesthetics of indoor pools and a mutual unease with the inclination shared by Americans across the political spectrum to blindly recapitulate ideological bullet points sanctioned by their peers.
The pool can be thought of as a Petri dish seen through an out of focus lens, with the pool noodles resembling magnified microorganisms. Like bacteria near a sugar source, the swimmers’ actions reflect a glitchy collective will that lacks conscious intentionality.
The destination of this guided tour is clear and cold. The drama of humanity is memorialized by pool noodles.
Links: https://vimeo.com/276565551
In our film, we pulled language from our current political climate and from the imperative voice of water aerobics instruction. At times the film’s subjects enact a trance-like obedience to the film’s guide, performing the instruction with military coherence. At other times the subjects are passively disobedient like distracted animals at a training.
Huskies emerged from our shared attraction to the aesthetics of indoor pools and a mutual unease with the inclination shared by Americans across the political spectrum to blindly recapitulate ideological bullet points sanctioned by their peers.
The pool can be thought of as a Petri dish seen through an out of focus lens, with the pool noodles resembling magnified microorganisms. Like bacteria near a sugar source, the swimmers’ actions reflect a glitchy collective will that lacks conscious intentionality.
The destination of this guided tour is clear and cold. The drama of humanity is memorialized by pool noodles.
Links: https://vimeo.com/276565551
Animation: Lilli Carré
Writing + Sound: David Sprecher and Lilli Carré
Voice: Mary Emmerick
Writing + Sound: David Sprecher and Lilli Carré
Voice: Mary Emmerick
Lilli Carré (US) is a visual artist and filmmaker. In 2010 she co-founded the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, which is held annually in Chicago, LA, and NYC. Exhibitions of her drawing, animation, and sculpture have shown internationally and throughout the US, and her films have shown in festivals including the Sundance Film Festival, the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival, the Ann Arbor Film Festival, 25FPS, and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She has an MFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University.
David Sprecher (US) is an artist based in Chicago. As a sculptor and writer, he makes augmented realities that conflate architectural and literary interiors. He has published writing in *The Brooklyn Rail* and has shown installations in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Berlin.
David Sprecher (US) is an artist based in Chicago. As a sculptor and writer, he makes augmented realities that conflate architectural and literary interiors. He has published writing in *The Brooklyn Rail* and has shown installations in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, and Berlin.