John Kelley (aka John c kelley)     (from United States / America)
SIGHT

In my video and sound work, cinematic narratives collapse upon themselves, and are rebuilt into broken, open-ended environments bathed in Technicolor-inspired nostalgia. By using the language of cinema clichés and tropes, contradictory yet connected scenes and sounds develop upon these structures established by years of movie culture. Dream sequences, horror movie formulas, and knee-jerk film score empathy resonate with the viewer’s innate familiarity with mediated story-telling.

My approach to video and sound comes from an interest in mid-century structure, and a formal familiarity with film, music and drawing; I have worked professionally as a session musician and writer of feature-length film scores, and received by MFA in Drawing/Painting in 2012.