This compelling collection of short experimental films by Deirdre Logue relies on the artist as director, primary performer, and technician. The works employ intimate performative moments and repeated physical actions and responses within an experimental sensibility. They are process-based works, emphasized by in-camera editing, surface manipulation, and hand-processing and tinting techniques. The works express both the physical manifestation of different states of being and the desire to understand one’s complex relationship to our physical and psychological limitations. Sexual deception, humiliation, injury, fear, and failure are common themes, however. Though dark, the works have a humorous, whimsical quality that provides the viewer with an element of comic relief and some distance from the sinister elements in the work.
Artist Bio
Deirdre Logue
Deirdre Logue is an independent curator and a film, video and performance artist, living and working in Toronto. Her recent activity as a curator includes the exhibition Promise, a collection of performance-based film and video works by women dedicated to different states of becoming. Logue is currently producing an independent feature film made collectively by ten Canadian film and video artists from across the country entitled Year of Grace and plays bass for Toronto’s sleazy listening, all chick band Messy. She has exhibited her film and video works internationally.