Blood Work
HD video & sound
3 min.
2009
Blood Work is an abstract meditation on the desire for “blood,” real or imagined, within the horror film genre. The video playfully narrows the mise-en-scène of the horror genre through the absence of the body, or victim, and the exaggeration of sound and editing. Blood Work isolates props in the studio and creates a visceral corporeal presence through the animation of fake blood. Visually, the video alternates between shots of a messy stagehand that helps the video’s main character, "blood," splash, drip and ooze. Working within the conventions and clichés of the genre, the video and soundtrack combine to question off-screen space and the mechanization of illusion.
credits:
Director: Julie Orser
Cast: Jon Irving & Julie Orser
Camera: Julie Orser
Crew: Jon Irving
Editor & Sound Design: Julie Orser
exhibitions:
Super 8, Curated by Christopher Grimes Gallery, Traveling Exhibition: Christopher Grimes Gallery (2011), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (2012), Yerba Buena Center for the Art (2012), Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro (2013)
We Can Pretend: Three Artists’ Takes on Hollywood Genre Film, Curated by Carrie Paterson, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
Seeing is Becoming, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, 2010
Unusual Behavior, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA, 2009
Drama of the Gifted Child: The Five Year Plan, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 2009
screenings:
Games, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Online Screening, 18th Street Art Center, CA, 2020
Night at the Movies, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Online Screening, UV Cinema, Colección AMALITA, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2020
Video in Site: The Horror Film & The Western, LACE, Organized by Maura Brewer & Pau Pescador, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
All I could do is watch, ATLAS IN LA, Organized by Paul Pescador, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2015
Intermission, Terry Chatkupt, Julie Orser, Marco Rios, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
Between Document & Fiction, Curated by José Carlos Teixeira, Maus Hábitos and Passos Manuel, Porto, Portugal, 2011
Out of the Great Northwest, Curated by Stephen Slappe, The Horse Hospital, London, England, 2011
34 Degrees North: A Selection of Artist Videos from Los Angeles, Curated by Paul Young, Art LA Contemporary, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
11th Annual Eagle Rock Music Festival, Los Angeles, CA, 2009
Narration, Animation, Provocation: Video Screening Part 2, Curated by Kristi Lippire, Torrance Art Museum, CA, 2009