‘Counting stars, shooting sheep’

2023
Video, stereo sound
00:06:20

Sound design: Gregor Connelly, guitar: Jason Athanasiadis

’Counting stars shooting sheep’ is a video work which consist of five different parallel stories and fantasies that are taking place in sleepovers and parties where the innocence and power are shifting back and forth. The work is exploring the dynamics of girlhood and conventions of femininity by creating scenes where things can spark and playing take over. The work is mixing personal experiences with the observations making the reality and fantasy getting blurred in the created stage for the characters where room is left for improvisation. The video is a tool to follow the stories that are happening in which the viewer is visually guided to observe the roles and the playing while the emphasis is in the absurdity of domesticity. The childlike imagination and created worlds around are morphing with the unconscious mind and desires.