ATLANTA MOVIE AWARDS: BEST THREE MINUTE SEMI-FINALIST 2026
EXQUISITE CORPSE @MILLENIUM CITY FILM ARCHIVES CENTER / NYC: OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025
Even if you reach a high age of 92 years, the time will come when you are not recalled anymore.
In her silent experimental super-short [loop], Alexandra Reill interprets aging body parts and thus addresses the imperfection of the human body. She refers to the irritations that aging and imaginations on death can cause and, not least, to age discrimination.
alexandra reill, 2025
Exquisite Corpse
short experimental [loop]
DCP 4K flat [3996 x 2160 px / 30 fps] | 00:01:25:02
production kanonmedia | vie / a 2025
As David Chalmers puts it––inner ways of thought could be seen as a personal movie that you are watching. One could also refer to the poem Blue House by Lisa Chen:
“It’s like the movie you were watching, the one you can’t recall as well as the person who sat 92 minutes at your side, then stumbled out of the theater into [her or] his own strange choreography.”
Exquisite Corpse is a video poem created from solely individual perception; it has no words for aging processes and does not meet the expectation of presenting a pleasing piece. There is no one who does not strive for a constructive choreography of their life; but there is also no one who, at certain moments, is not irritated by the strangeness of unexpected and uncontrollable phenomena.
EXQUISITE CORPSE. CONTRIBUTION TO A VIDEO SCULPTURE
in the framework of the exhibition EXQUISITE CORPSE at the Millennium City Film Archives Center NYC
alexandra reill, 2025
Exquisite Corpse. Contribution to a video sculpture
video loop
4k [4032 x 3024 px] | one loop duration: 00:01:48:10
production kanonmedia | vie / a 2025
Video artists are asked to contribute interpretations of body parts to the collaborative video sculpture to the the exhibition Exquisite Corpse curated by Abygai Peña and Jay Reinier – short looping films up to three minutes duration:
“The final installation [is] a fragmented, looping video sculpture using CRTs arranged to form an abstract composite body. ” It is “assembled from these unique parts, creating a fragmented, dreamlike experience that reflects the complexity, contradiction, and beauty of embodiment. The sculpture will consist of looped CCTVs, arranged in the shape of an abstract body. Whether abstract or narrative, poetic or grotesque, these works coalesce in a simultaneous video sculpture that invites viewers to explore the body as a collective myth.” (1)
(1) NN: OPEN CALL: Exquisite Corpse – A Video Sculpture, in: Experimental Cinema, https://expcinema.org/site/en/call/open-call-exquisite-corpse-video-sculpture, 04/08/2025, access: 09/08/2025. Text excerpts
Exquisite Corpse awarded by
— atlanta movie awards / atl / us / 26 – best three minute: semi-finalist
— exquisite corpse @millennium city film archives center / nyc / us / 25 – official selection
Exquisite Corpse. Contribution to a video sculpture screened / installed at
— exquisite corpse @millennium city film archives center / nyc / us / 25