Jolanta A. Lapiak: Zone Upside Down

BFA Portfolio

2005

60 seconds, 24 hours Zone Upside Down (Nepal) Absurdity in a Flower Prosperity (series) Bhaktapur (series)

2004

Finish-Touched Hegemonic Marriage Untied Ties Sweet Nightmare Death Around the Corner

2003

Speak in ASL: Candid We Help You... More is not Enough Sounds of Silence Intra-active Inter-reality (live video performance) Knowing Fish (Solipsistic Solitude) Lip Dancing The Art of Skeedskating Crack the Audism Digital Painter The (Female) Thinker

2002

Deaf or Dead (video story) Tsunami (video poem) Life Seasons (video poem)

2001

Italian Urban Cats (documentary) Purana Quila

Zone Upside Down series

Artist: Jolanta Lapiak.
Video, 45-minute.
Bkahtapur, Nepal; Calgary, Canada, 2004-2005.

Twelve zone hours apart between the polarities of the globe, Canada and Nepal, the poetic video Zone Upside Down is not all about Nepalese way of life, cultural practices and beliefs, but offers spectators a reflection about their own westernized cultural beliefs and customs in parallel.

The 45-minute documentary, Zone Upside Down, consists of a series of individual short videos journeying through the areas of life from language and art, to politics and religion, to society and people.

Manjushree (language and art)

This age-old dance narration, appropriated into a modern medium and a foreign expression of the artist, has a multiple, interwoven nature of languages: artistic dance, so-called "sign language", and audio music (silence). 4:05 minutes.

Bhaktapur (society and community)

"Those things that were once religious icons become 'works of art' through collection. What is sacred becomes photogenic. What is ancient becomes antique with a high market price tag." - Aidan Warlow. 3.50 minutes.

To Survive or To Thrive (labour and play)

Whether to survive or to thrive a life in terms of work or play, paid or not, and passionate or passive, is to experience an existence of self. 5.30 minutes

In Faith (religions)

Without faith, a sense of death. Existential angst. Leap in faith. Aliveness. 11.15 minutes.

Water for Life

Which half of a glass is empty or full? Like any other symbols, water is one-sided, perceived as a symbol for life and is also an unthought-of symbol for death, rather than perceived in gestalt. 2.35 minutes.

Tame the Wild (politics and environments)

Flight from love for fear or fight fear for love. 5.40 minutes.

Sacred Martyr (philosophy/ethics)

Cross-cultured beliefs, ethics and practices in all cultures. 5.20 minutes

Philosophy (education)

Love and pursuit of wisdom. Knowledge and creativity/imagination. 0.45 minute

Human Season (people)

Among the institutional ideologies, a human being is the heart of all. 2 minutes.