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The Invisible Limb

Sarah Browne


Artist's biography

Sarah Browne

Synopsis

'The Invisible Limb is the third in a series of works that address issues of gendered labour and representation. This latest film is partly addressed to deceased Frankfurt artist Charlotte Posenenske, renowned both for her rigorous artistic oeuvre and her eventual cessation of art production in favour of practising sociology, focusing on the study of wage labour conditions and factory processes. Browne is working with another sculptor of Posenenske’s generation, born in the same year in fact; Irish stonecarver Cynthia Moran, with an entirely different political and artistic trajectory. Shot partly on location at the Giant's Causeway, Co. Antrim, and including 16mm and television archival footage, the film stages a series of unlikely correspondences through sculptural objects and ideas of mimesis, technology and the magic of apparently costless production.'

(Text sourced from http://www.sarahbrowne.info/work/the-invisible-limb/ on Dec 31st 2016)

Credits

Directed, written and edited by Sarah Browne

Featuring: Cynthia Moran

Cinematography: Kate McCullough

Camera: Kate McCullough, Sarah Browne

Voiceover: Amanda Elena Conrad

Composition: Alma Kelliher

Choreography: Fearghus Ó Conchúir

Research assistants: Christin Muller, Laura Wunsche

Archives: Hessischer Rundfunk, WDR mediagroup

Translation: Petra Gaines

Colourist: John Beattie

Special thanks to Burkhard Brunn, Jessica Foley, Natascha Reigger,

Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin, and Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt

Details
Title

The Invisible Limb

Year

2014

Form

Short

Key phrases

art, mimesis in art, technology, labour, sociology, charlotte posenenske (1930–1985), giant's causeway (northern ireland)

Language

German; English; English subtitles

Duration

00:20:00

Original formats

Digital: QTV AppleProRes422

Aspect ratio

16:9

Colour

Mixture

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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