VIDEO ART
note: Many of the videos listed below are made under the pseudonym Morvan Kelm
Desire {Too Much, Not Enough}
3min 33sec
by Morvan Kelm
2018
Pride
3min19sec
by Morvan Kelm
2018
Obedience
2min9sec
M. Kelm
2016
Sparrows
August 12, 2022
M. Kelm
Swan
September 12, 2022
M. Kelm
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Socrates:
“You seem to think me inferior to the swans in prophecy. They sing before too, but when they realize that they must die they sing most and most beautifully, as they rejoice that they are about to depart to join the god whose servants they are. But men, because of their own fear of death, tell lies about the swans and say that they lament their death and sing in sorrow. They do not reflect that no bird sings when it is hungry or cold or suffers in any other way, neither the nightingale nor the swallow nor the hoopoe, though they do say that these sing laments when in pain. Nor do the swans, but I believe that as they belong to Apollo, they are prophetic, have knowledge of the future, and sing of the blessings of the underworld, sing and rejoice on that day beyond what they did before. As I believe myself to be a fellow servant with the swans and dedicated to the same god, and have received from my master a gift of prophecy not inferior to theirs, I am no more despondent than they on leaving life.”
[section 85 of Plato’s PHAEDO, Translated by G.M.A Grube]
Music featured is The Swan composed by Camille Saint-Saëns and sung by Clara Rockmore
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Joan Baez music video, art director
“I Wish the Wars Were All Over”
made in collaboration with Max Nova of NYU, 2018
Parabola composed by Leo Brouwer
Performed on classical guitar by my brother, Ryan Johnson
Filmed in an abandoned World War II structure in the woods of Camp Evans
October, 2021
Crystal Chakra Bowl Meditation, videographer
Documenting the Sound Healing ritual of John Shambhu Eustor
Filmed at Sapphire Holistic Center in the spring of 2020
In the Hall of the Sad King, writer and art director
a series of video portraits made in collaboration with Dawn of Man
exhibited at Westbeth Gallery, NYC 2015
Floating video art - 11min32sec - 2009
Floating Guerilla Projection in NYC with Dawn of Man Productions