Demi Pietchell
In addition to her work as an innovative artist, Demi Pietchell is an award-winning filmmaker with sixteen years of experience as a writer, producer, director, and media publicist. Pietchell’s work is personal and experimental, exploring the gaps between time and memory through the deconstruction of narrative, culture, myth, and media.
Pietchell has written, directed, and produced seven shorts, including Relative Dysfunction (2003), Coney Island (2005), Fake in Front (2005) and Idolatry (2005). Her work has been shown domestically and internationally in festivals and exhibitions, with the honor of receiving Best Long Format Narrative Drama, DV Awards; Best Picture and Best Writing, Palm Beach Film Society Competition, Palm Beach International Film Festival; and the Grand and Silver Goldie Awards.
With a fiscal sponsorship from the Independent Film Project (IFP), she is currently in post-production on her debut feature-length experimental documentary, 057 (2011), which explores the connection between trauma narrative and collective memory via ten years of mixed media documentation of a group of friends united by tragedy in their youth. Pietchell attended New York University, receiving both a BFA in Film and Television and an MPS in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) from Tisch School of the Arts.
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Demi Pietchell on Friday, August 13th 2010
The photographic collage Night Garden uses digital manipulation to create a surrealistic architectural landscape that propels the viewer to look deeper into the center of the doorway, and by doing so, to ponder the reality of the space.
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Demi Pietchell on Thursday, August 12th 2010
As a work of surreal photography, this fine art collage combines three fractal forms, the elegantly curving organic form of the stairs, the branching trees, and the digitally cloned yellow and purple scaffolding into a mystical composition with its own logic and cohesion.
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Demi Pietchell on Monday, August 9th 2010
An old red brick wall serves as the backdrop in this photographic collage; a window allows the viewer to peer into the world within. This surreal landscape photography piece creates an instance of photographic art that inspires both a mood of rural pining and bucolic unease. These disconnected digital art images have been recombined into a photographic collage that is simultaneously fantastical and mundane.
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Demi Pietchell on Friday, August 6th 2010
In this fine art photographic collage, the viewer immediately tries to focus on the central images, the ghostly visages of model Julie Allen; however, the blurred quality of the digital art portrait makes the viewer unable to see clearly the details of her face. The superimposed images of the woman have an ethereal quality, as her many faces appear to be both beckoning the viewer to join her on the ghost train while simultaneously turning away as if to warn of impending danger.
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Demi Pietchell on Thursday, August 5th 2010
Photographic collage benefits from attention to detail, and a key element of a successfully executed piece is appropriate composition. Using elements of photo art that have some direct or implied relationship to the topic at hand is a sure way to create an overall scene whose parts seem to fit with each other as if they were actually made together.
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Demi Pietchell on Wednesday, August 4th 2010
This fine art photographic image is an example of surreal art, a style of art that emphasizes dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid forms of thought notation that express the inner workings of the subconscious. Through the introduction of the lady in white, model Julie Allen, superimposed multiple times behind herself and again in the photograph at the end of the hallway, the composition within this photographic collage contradicts itself by juxtaposing items that appear to be from the real world and with other worldly ethereal concepts.
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Demi Pietchell on Tuesday, August 3rd 2010
In the foreground of this surreal landscape, there is the top of a wooden fence covered in chicken wire, beyond which is a pasture with bales of hay; beyond that is a field with cultivated rows. Farther back there is a building, behind which is a line of fence and a tree-topped ridge. Though the subject would ordinarily be tranquil, there is a quality about this piece of photographic art that causes disquiet in the viewer. A close examination reveals why, and illustrates some of the elements of surreal landscape photography.
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Demi Pietchell on Sunday, August 1st 2010
Digital art techniques have come a long way since their inception. Modern photographic collage includes surreal art elements that Salvador Dali would be proud to include in any of his traditional oil paint or print masterpieces, creating dreamlike secret gardens.
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