Elizabeth Leister

Crystal Ball

single channel video, 2:00, 2004/2009

The result of a private performance, Crystal Ball uses the body as material, tool and canvas to continue my exploration of the fragile and powerful body, interior and exterior spaces and the ephemeral.

Pas de Deux

single channel video, 7:30, 2004

Pas de Deux is a moving collage exploring corporeality.

Vista

single channel video with sound, 3:40, 2008 (reedit)

An exploration of physical, psychological and emotional space played out in the open landscape. “In Vista the camera teases out traumas residing in a landscape, yet leaves its precise story untold. Vista traverses invisible dangers in the seeming innocence of nature and offers as consolation spaces simultaneously claustrophobic and protected.

Surrender

single channel video, 2:45, 2007

Surrender isolates a series of moments from a trapeze act through repetition and slow motion. The body shifts from a state of grace into total loss of control. The fall, a surrender to gravity, is frozen mid-air to reveal the gestures of the body relinquishing control.

Symbiote

single channel video with sound, 5:50, 2006

Images of the body and the interior workings of a computer underscore a female voice recounting a symbiotic relationship with a machine that is magical and mysterious, fulfilling yet frustrating and ultimately inescapable.

Romantech Machine:Secret Code (2:46), (Live Wire (2:17) and Extension Conflict (1:50)

3 videos collectively titled single channel with sound, 2004

Through minimal imagery and an audio track of internal questioning and sounds sampled from the computer itself, connections are set up between our relationships with human beings and technology