Elizabeth Stehling The View 2018 Digital Video 7 minute loop Filmed & Edited by: Elizabeth Stehling Dancers: Katarina Fitzpatrick and Hannah Lareau With Additional Footage & Music by: Steve Snell Filmed at The View Hotel in Monument Valley in the Navajo Nation as well as Plug Projects and Stockyards Brewery in the Kansas City West Bottoms. Special thanks to the directors of Plug Projects, and Greg Bland at Stockyards Brewery for use of the location and providing the beer. Artist Statement: The View follows two women on their search through mediated worlds, one carrying an hourglass, the other a smartphone. It seeks to acknowledge the impacts of digital technology on our relationships to time, to ourselves, and on our ability to experience the sublime. Hypnotic, transient realities continuously fracture the frame of a majestic landscape. As the sands flow and seconds pass, we fall deeper into the loss of our digital innocence. The View takes inspiration from futurist theories including Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock, written in 1970. It describes ‘future shock’ as a state of mind that comes about when an individual is not able to mentally or emotionally keep up with the rapid rate of technological change. Written pre-Internet, it is fascinating to compare where digital progress has taken us today in context of his predictions. Biographies: Dancer with hourglass: Katarina Fitzpatrick is a professional dancer and choreographer based in Kansas City, Missouri. She is a member of Kansas City Contemporary Dance Company (KACICO), as well as a guest artist with other local performing groups and independent artists. Her choreography has been presented in the Kansas City Fringe Festival, Kansas City Contemporary Dance performances, at the Mary D’Angelo Performing Arts Center. Katarina holds a BA from Mercyhurst University with majors in Dance (choreography concentration) and Anthropology/Archaeology. She has trained at the Kansas City Ballet School, Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet, The Ailey School, and Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet. Dancer with smartphone: Hannah Lareau teaches for Kansas City Ballet, Empire Dance Academy, and several other places around Kansas City. She has trained throughout the area, as well as many summer training workshops in Los Angeles. She teaches many styles and performs for her own collective called Illuminate Dance Collective, as well as That’s Entertainment KC, Epic Innovative Events, and works often as a freelance performer. Dance is her passion and release; it is her avenue to share stories with the world through the art of movement. Elizabeth Stehling grew up riding horses and going to contra dances in the foothills of Appalachia. She creates videos, prints, and drawings to explore gestures between creatures. Her accomplishments have taken her to the Currents New Media Festival, Aspen Shortsfest, Omaha Film Festival and more. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Wassaic Project, the Rensing Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. She received the Robert Altman Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2016, as well as a grant from Kansas City’s Art in the Loop program. Elizabeth graduated from the Pratt Institute in NYC with her MFA in 2010 and received her BA from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC in 2005. She lives in Kansas City where she works at the Kansas City Ballet, producing their videos and digital marketing content. She continues to explore videos and collaborations often around the theme of movement. www.elizabethstehling.com Screener copy 720p - Vimeo