kim kielhofner

Trinity, 4:22min, 2010

installation

“Art of the Amplifier”, colour, 4:54 min, 2009
An afternoon is taken by far away waves.

“A Dragnet for Lost Feelings”, colour, 13:23 min, 2009
A story created from myths of the Wild West

“Our Father”, colour, 3:31 min, 2009
“The three things I said everyday.” A video recounting pledges and promises made before and after.

“Kim Novak”, coulour, 1:19 min, 2009

I wanted to give Kim Novak a minute outside of the roles which she is seen, a possibility for another side of Kim

“Snap Shot”, colour, 4:11 min, 2008
“I watched a movie one afternoon and this is the story of that movie.” A fictional story is combined with my personal archives of photos. Together the story and images walk the line between fiction and autobiography, hero and villain, and humor and melancholy.

“Fesse Party”, colour, 3:39 min, 2008
A hybrid music video/ mash-up, “Fesse Party” mixes advertising, icons, and popular music and presents a cheeky response to visual culture.

“Present Myths”, colour, 13:50 min, 2008
A series of intersecting journeys collapse their own sense of history. The trajectories leave in their wake an absence and create a playground for memory.

“Dear January”, colour, 4:25 min, 2008
Trying to write a letter leaves ambiguous results and highlights a sense of isolation.

“They Say There’s Something Loose in my Heart”, colour, 6:42 min, 2008
This video is about something loose in the heart. This is a search to discover what that is…rapture, fear, sickness, love, or something else.

“Horses (After Patti Smith)”, video, colour, sound, 6:17 min, 2008
A video made for the Gelding Express project for their dreamy, delayed cover of Patti Smith’s Horses.

“Strangers on a Train”, video, colour, sound, 1:57 min, 2008
Strangers on a Train takes dialogue from the Hitchcock film and re-contextualized the subtext of the original.

"Madonna Swimming", video, colour, sound, 2:39 min, 2007
Madonna Swimming is a video work created from footage of Madonna's music videos. Madonna is a cultural figure of excess, her iconography appropriated from a saturated visual culture. This video collects the leaking Madonna, her images of sexuality and religion, and ultimately presents a more ambiguous product.

“As the world goes by my window with Thurston and Kim,” 2:51 min, video, colour, sound, 2007
As the world goes by my window with Thurston and Kim is an absorbing look of created reality, fantasy, and life created through the screen. Addressing the state of daydreaming in relationship to cultural icons, the work is constructed out of footage of a Sonic Youth performance.

“Hail the Failure of Urban Planning,” 2:07 min, video, colour, sound, 2007
Hail the Failure of Urban Planning captures the persistent assault endured by urban dwellers as they perform the daily rituals necessary to exist in the modern city. It is a possibility of creation and constraint through a visual movement as an urban dweller. Accompanying the visual movement is a text of tenets of urban practice, both sincere and ironic.

“Legions of Horribles,” 9:55 min, video, colour, sound, 2007

Legions of Horribles is a video performance, in homage to Kathy Acker, of a reality from appropriated imagery and text, mainly Acker’s final diary. The video follows the coming of age of the imaginary child of Kathy Acker abandoned at birth. Using the surrounding texts, the character creates an environment and identity.

Sea of Possibilities," 6:02 min, video, colour, sound, 2006

works 2005-2006
Last Question Please, 5:35, 2005
Look, 4:53, 2005
I want to tell you something, 4:07, 2006
Contained, 4:49, 2006
All I Ever Wanted, 4:49, 2006
History of Three Sisters, 3:35, 2006
Personal Electronics, 5:16, 2006
g.c., 3:38, 2006
A common openness, 6:21, 2006
A difficult conversation, 4:06, 2006

There are a lot more videos on my youtube page