Sarah Biagini, I Swim Now | 2010 | 8:50min | 16mm Single-Channel | USA
I Swim Now explores the landscape aesthetic and its underlying set of compositional rules. The film offers a representation of nature that challenges the primacy of visual intelligibility through the experiences of Violet Jessop, a passenger who happened to be onboard all three sister-ships of the White Star Line – the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic. Each ship suffered varying degrees of collision and wreckage at sea. I Swim Now evokes the brutality of Jessop’s unique physical interaction with nature through its expansive accumulation of optical techniques and manipulations.
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Sarah Biagini is an MFA candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her films address the mutual exclusivity of experience and representation through composite imagery, multi-layered constructions and many generations of optical printing. Biagini currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.
