Kevin Obsatz is a filmmaker and video artist who works primarily with hand-processed 16mm film and consumer video equipment. His work has screened around the world at various festivals, microcinemas, and cinematheques, and he has received funding from the Warhol Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He teaches courses in experimental and narrative video at the University of Minnesota and St. John's University, and writes for publications such as MnArtists.org, Otherzine, and PrimerStories. In 2014 he was a co-founder of Cellular Cinema, currently the longest-running (and perhaps only) monthly screening series of experimental film, video and expanded cinema in Minnesota.
Convoluted Time: Reflections on Laura Prouvost’s They Are Waiting for You
A voice, a woman’s voice, probably the voice of Laure Prouvost, is asking, text is instructing on the screen. Remember that this image means that. An image of a mallet pounding a stake means no. An image of an iguana means yes. So begins filmmaker and writer Kevin Obsatz’s reflection on Provoust’s performance, They Are Waiting for You. Offering a rich description of her piece, Obsatz explores how the artist and her collaborators muddle the lines between live and mediated, present performance and forgotten memories.
