Andrea Dojmi
Andrea Dojmi, visual artist, videoartist, filmaker, performer, photographer, was born in Rome in 1973.
After a degree in multimedia, international communication and visual arts, Andrea collaborated for years as a freelance creative art director in the international contemporary communication and advertising.
At the same time, Andrea developed and produced personal research as visual artist, video artist and filmmaker in the contemporary art enviroment and experimental cinema.
Dojmi published an art-book-project, "AIMREADY", in 2005.
Director's Statement
"I'm a filmaker and a video artist. My research is developed by cycles of work; at the end of each research-cycle I have different kinds of results: films and videos, sound-works, tri-dimensional art works, temporary or permanent site-specific installations.
"They are part of the same work in progress. I intend them to be like pieces of art and at the same time like a documentation of a mental and real process.
"I use different media, like photography, super-8 film, single-8 japanese format, super-16mm, music and sound research, installations and perfromance.
"The main focus of my work is on the tension between childhood, adolescence and the formal education system, youth and community, dimensions of experiment and habitat.
"My films are cinematic sequences around youth and the community, individual identity and religious experience. The themes I'm upon which I focus interweave, pervaded by a constant serenity that at moments reveals tragedy.
"These video works are the result of long research, planned travels and investigations around the world, true experiences where I aim to find "the true and real set" to film and edit an emotional, cinematic story. The quality of these works is remaniscent of materials that inspired me since my adolescence, such as Canadian documentaries, films and books, or international video archives. Youths, places, animals and situations, are shown with the same innocent eyes of an individual but universal past, where truth seems to be caught in the deepest part of a simple message, like the quality of our vision in the first technological age and its move into our present.
"The aim of my video installations is based on creatying hybrid ambiences and shapes that blend formal structures of education (a gym, furniture, tools), with common spaces like mess halls and chapels from modern and experimental communities, training camps, etc. I give particular attention to the inner organization of these minor communities and micro societes with their own belief and autonomous systems."
