Jani Ruscica
  • Jani Ruscica
  • Works
    • Portrait of a Poet
    • Autoritratti
    • Polynoknot (and they bloom)
    • Not-knot (to stain, to leak, to spill etc.)
    • Snails' ways and milky shells
    • The Inked and their incandescent Irreverence (No. 13-16)
    • Not-knot
    • The Inked and their Incandescent Irreverence (No. 8-12)
    • About Us (refrain to refrain)
    • * Fate a modo vostro o com’é scritto nelle stelle
    • A Pleated Plateau - the Sound of Dissent
    • Felt the Moonlight on My Feet
    • I for Iridescence
    • WOW
    • No dot on the I
    • The Inked, and their Incandescent Irreverence (No. 1-7)
    • The Occult Amorphous / Twist and Shout
    • Untitled (The Revered Vernacular)
    • An Effigy of the Exuberant Kind
    • Walnoot
    • Tarwe
    • Human Flesh
    • P for Platinum
    • R for Rust
    • A for Alabaster
    • Fold in and Fall Flat
    • Flatlands
    • Felt the Moonlight on My Feet
    • M for Mauve
    • Conversation in Pieces
    • Conversation in Pieces (opening act)
    • Ring Tone (en plein air)
    • The Keel Row (for solo lyre)
    • S for Sepia
    • T for Terracotta
    • U for Ultramarine
    • Fog Horn
    • Mt. Rushmore
    • 10 Minute Display...
    • Sing Me a Song
    • Material Studies
    • Screen Test for a Living Sculpture
    • Scene Shifts, in Six Movements
    • Sounding Back
    • Anyplacewhatever
    • Travelogue
    • Beginning an Ending
    • Scenography (After the Futurists)
    • Evolutions
    • Batbox/Beatbox
    • Variations on a Theme
  • Bio
  • Publications
    • Felt the Moonlight on My Feet
    • Appendix
    • Anecdotal
    • File Note #49
  • Texts
  • Contact
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Beginning an Ending

2009
16mm film transferred to digital beta and HD
stereo sound
16'33'' loop

The seven amateur actors of Beginning an Ending morph the blank canvas of the film studio into a temporary stage for their visions of the future. The seven variations on the future and the eventual end of time reflect how history and the past as well as the imagery mediated by the media and popular culture shape our notions about the future. A meditation on the creation of images, theatrical and cinematic representation, Beginning an Ending is merely an image of its own times. In the end the future can only be a reflection of the present.

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Beginning an Ending

2009
16mm film transferred to digital beta and HD
stereo sound
16'33'' loop

The seven amateur actors of Beginning an Ending morph the blank canvas of the film studio into a temporary stage for their visions of the future. The seven variations on the future and the eventual end of time reflect how history and the past as well as the imagery mediated by the media and popular culture shape our notions about the future. A meditation on the creation of images, theatrical and cinematic representation, Beginning an Ending is merely an image of its own times. In the end the future can only be a reflection of the present.

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