The Oldest Mother on the Block
(video includes sound)
The Oldest Mother on the BlockNow Available on DVD! |
IMPRINT, a video installation by Cat Ashworth, consists of a carved wooden table with built in audio/video display. Two handprints are carved on the top of the table, each finger on the handprint has an electronic sensor that activates the video display.
IMPRINT is an ancestral altar, an attempt to electronically activate the spirits of my ancestors and engage them in protecting my daughter from harm and the horrors that humans inflict on each other. Each button activates a densely layered video/audio collage that represents one of my ancestors. Each of the ancestors represented tell their story of survival and perseverance during many of the 20th century's greatest horrors. Although the theme of IMPRINT is personal family history, the subject matter of family, protecting your child from harm, and the power of memory are universal. More about IMPRINT and other recent work >
About Cat Ashworth
Producer/Director/Editor Cat Ashworth has been creating video artworks, documentaries, and educational programs for over twenty-five years. Always looking for innovative ways to communicate visually, her early work combined video art, performance art, and installation art, often with a first person point of view.
In 1999 she directed the documentary House of Peace. House of Peace has been shown extensively, it was selected to be in the 1999 American Indian Film Festival and the 2000 Smithsonian Native American Film Festival.
Cat Ashworth is a tenured professor in the
School of Film and
Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology in
Rochester, NY. The Oldest
Mother on the Block is her
first feature
length documentary and is available on DVD.
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