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Siren Sadness (2012)
Black Siren (2014)
Siren Song (2019)
utorak, 2. svibnja 2023.
"Petra Brnardic’s psychedelic alien B-horror tentacular trans-species feminist digital collages were a world of words in themselves. In particular, Blooming (2014) was a floral bouquet bursting with snakes with a woman’s legs splayed wide open in some horrifically vulnerable position, each foot balanced on a skull. Yet there was no head attached to the woman; the woman is her body and only that. This piece played with the tradition of the memento mori, the Christian concept of humility by being reminded about one’s own mortality, especially seen in still life paintings using the symbology of skulls and clocks and dying fruit, but this combination of fantastical elements was also a jarring engagement with occult practices and the subjectification of the female body in ritual, of pain and pleasure and sacrifice, ultimately allowing the female form to rise to the status of a goddess, which her other digital collages also evoke. "
"Succubi is a short poetic movie with experimental free-style dance. I recorded myself doing improvised choreography on the terrace of the seaside house, late at night, while everyone was asleep. The setting was quiet, only song of crickets lacing the silence of the air. I represent a ghost, a phantom-like apparition, surreal creature that is succubus, female who haunts and attacks men in their sleep. Or it could be a dream sequence per se, where I invocate strange, otherwordly forces and act out my inner energy and psychological impulses. It is a seduction in the heat of the night, but paradoxically cool, aloof and distant. I wanted to paint poetic image, and my breathing is essential part of it."
Fever / Petra Brnardic / Croatia 2015 / 5’11
"This brutal, macabre collage piece merges psychedelics with a camp horror aesthetic to explore ideas around the historically perceived danger of female sexuality." - by Darkroom Film Festival, London, UK.
"This movie is a sort of visual poetry, made as a collage, with non-linear and associative structure. I speak about my own melancholy, yearning and desire, and I depict images and scenes of a nostalgic paradise, arcadia and utopia which are mixed with gruesome and anxious, through the relation between a man and a woman. Images are reminiscences of a seaside summer vacation which stirred deep emotions in me. At the same time I show interpersonal connection, sensuality and tenderness, opposed with feelings of loneliness and fears triggered by it."
„Virus“ is short experimental movie about terror of beauty and positioning on masks, imposed by society expectations, that are actually our personas, hiding our true selves. The woman (myself) repetitively puts on and scraps off her make-up, in feverish ritual, in search for identity. It could be shamanic masquerade, glittery face of a clown or seductive redness, but at the end it all comes down to suffocating in vicious circle of necessity od acting and putting on the show for the predatory public view. Or, to self-cannibalism."
"Ghost Bride is a movie that presents a bit eerie and sinister, yet at the same time ethereal and dreamy dance of the bride that passed away, in a romantic tone, which turns a form of a ghost or phantomic apparition that obsessively hunts her groom, like a pale vampire, returning to his visions, dreams and memories. Cold weapon as a brutal detail is present because the groom is haunted by a sense of guilt related to unknown and mysterious circumstances of bride´s death, which adds the element of tension and suspense. Ceremonial sounds of church bells in the beginning are followed by idyllic spring bird chirping, but soon they gain much ominous tone with the appearance of the whirlwind of wuthering heights od this tragic romance. It is an archetypal story told in a contemporary manner."
"This is a short experimental movie with poetic freestyle dance. It is about the afterlife of the White and Black Swan finally merged together in one entity. It is a celebration of a fusion and integration of light and dark fragments of the soul, of angelic and demonic dimensions, an exercise in ominous beauty of moodiness and euphoria (as in manic depression), of obscure sensuality and high-pitched elevation of the soul, sojourning fluidly in the body temple and transcending it at the same time. Echoes of movement are mirroring multiple and complex layers of a psyche in a feverish exorcism."
"Mermaid Song represents an emotional landscape and abysmal agony of a mermaid from the ocean imprisoned and enslaved in a bathtub, as a symbol of isolation, alienation and entrapment. Bath resembles the pool of blood that flows out of every pore of siren´s haunted psychological catacombs, leaking bubbly archipelagos of shattered heart that crystallize and sublimate themselves through spoken poetry of a director and actor. The pain is masked in seduction, but both of them are deadly."
"....All
is bathed in alien-like disco underground ambience, merged with cosmos
surroundings and abstract neon spaces..." "...She takes the shapes from
pagan goddesses to movie stars and deranged silverscreen divas, so the
film is also about voyage of a woman through time and many female
archetypes, like volcanic and frenzied shapeshifter..." "...a cocktail
of retro bizzare monster aesthetic and futuristic escapism..."
(excerpt)
This is my first voyage to more linear narration, a mixture of suspense thriller, horror and film noir, with fragmented, associative structure and an accent on atmosphere and emotions. There is a premonition of something dangerous, dark and ominous happening. Everything slowly unravels through emotionally charged, both dreamy and nightmarish images and visual metaphors, and it all culminates with a woman, at first histerical then spiralling into madness, dancing on the razorblade of psychological black hole. She is being attacked and smothered by an eerie stranger or a convolution of her own psyche, some inner demon or nemesis that is haunting her, rising from the darkest depths of amygdala. A real person or a figment of her imagination/aspect of her psyche? It remains a mystery.
Nigredo (2005)
Red Room (2010)
Tempest (2011)
Bedazzled Castle (2013)
Fever (2015)
Virus (2016)
Glossolalia (2017)
Ghost Bride (2018)
Leviathan of Desire (2018)
Visitors (2018)
Satan´s Porcupine (2018)
Masquerade (2018)
Succubi (2019)
Electric Labyrinth (2019)
Tarantula (2020)
Bloodbath (2021)
Diamond Hurricane (2021)
Neon Viper/Possession (2021)
Midnight Orange (2021)
Mermaid Song (2021)
Echoes (2021)
The Black Swan Flaming Ocean (2022)
Vicious Orchids (2022)
Butterfly and Snake (2023)
subota, 22. travnja 2023.
Početkom ožujka iz svoje se satenske tame i sjajnog balonera od krljušti promeškoljila „Crna mamba“, moja druga zbirka pjesama! Izdao ju je i tiskao Zdenko Franjić, kao pankerski samizdat (. bratstvo duša). U more riječi ušuljali su se i moji crteži, iščarobiravši svojevrsni intermedijalni artist´s book. Knjiga je izdašna, 134 stranice na A4 formatu, i ukazuje se i u crno-bijelom i koloriranom obličju.
Early in dewy March 2023 there was static electricity in the air that foreshadowed a birth of a new entity. From its satin darkness and glowy sherdy raincoat "The Black Mamba" wiggled out. It is my second poetry book, after rebellious "Deep Cuts", being more intricate, wordy and veiny, like a fountain or even volcano, baroquely encrusted with ornate and spasmodic associations and cross-references, with sprinkles of stream-of-consciousness-archipelago ambience. It was printed and published by South-Eastern European underground guru Zdenko Franjic, as a punk samizdat of sorts. The sea of words is disturbed and penetrated by my drawings, so the intermedial/multimedial cocktail was conjured, resembling the form of the artist´s book. The book is lavish and opulent like Scheherazade´s tales, siren song or Pandora´s box, dancing between black and white and colored physical incarnations.
subota, 15. travnja 2023.
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