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                                In the beginning of this year I received one of those e-mails that make your day!
                                Lady Lazarus, an enchanting musician from Savanna, Georgia was telling me that
                                she likes my work and asked me if I would be interested in creating a video for one
                                of her songs. Listening to her music made the decission very easy.






                               
                                LADY LAZARUS  "THE EYE IN THE EYE OF THE STORM" >>>
                                http://www.myspace.com/ladylazarusintheory







                                As a visual artist, I usually work on site-specific projects. I see a space, and then
                                relating to it, I create a piece.
                                Making a music video is different and absolutely new for me—in my way of working
                                it’s unusual to start with something that’s not visual, and it was very surprising that
                                Melissa’s music immediately created such strong images in me. The very difference
                                here is that a song gives such a strong frame:  time.
 
                                From our very first interaction, I felt a connection with Melissa; the moment she wrote
                                to me — the circumstances I was in, the song we both picked, even being over-the-Atlantic
                                — everything felt close, intimate, even comforting. So it didn’t surprise me much that
                                I could easily combine old material and, for me very personal video material, with new
                                sequences I filmed after I was listening to her songs. Everything fit together, and killed
                                time and space, and for a while I became the “eye in the eye of the storm.”
                                Katherina Lackner





                                r e v i e w s

                                We floated first. Suspended, upside down in the way babies prefer to float in that
                                inland sea alone. We couldn't tell at first, but the moontide push and pull of our first
                                liquid homes was our first cradle. Gently rocking us back and forth before we emerged
                                through latex and fluorescent lights, dry-docked and landlocked. Our desire for the
                                comforting, circular rock can be found in the way we can never walk in a straight line.
                                Always doubling back on the place we once were like returning to the womb. The way,
                               when we find ourselves in the agoraphobic expanse, we keep our circles tight.
                               The tighter the safer, like we remember ourselves floating in uterine sea.

                               The pairing of Lady Lazarus's looped piano drone and Katherina Lackner's study of circular
                               motion as social and individual human nature is one of the most beautiful videos I have seen this year.

                                http://tometotheweathermachine.com/videodrones/2011/02/videodrone-lady-lazarus-–-eye-storm-eye-storm

                               

                                http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/videos/lady-lazarus-the-eye-in-the-eye-of-the-storm



                                http://sunonthesand.com/2011/lady-lazarus-video-the-eye-in-the-eye-of-the-storm/