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anamnesis        

anamnesis. Kai Lossgott. 2008. Experimental film, DV PAL SD. Colour, sound. 3 min 21 sec.

noesis

noesis. Kai Lossgott. 2010. Experimental film, DV PAL SD. Colour, sound. 3 min 21 sec.

pangenesis

pangenesis. Kai Lossgott. 2011. Experimental film, DV PAL SD. Colour, sound. Work in progress.

 

 

origins.
anamnesis. noesis. pangenesis.

This wordless trilogy is a meditation on the non-verbal nature of cellular, genetic and ancestral memory, and the pre-expressive origins of language. How is it that we know when we do not know why we know? The artist recalls a past life as a plant, his sister finds rest in the trance of a language fever, and his parents star as primates in their own creation mythology.

anamnesis.
n. pl. an·am·ne·ses
1. Psychology A recalling to memory; recollection.
2. Medicine The complete history recalled and recounted by a patient.
3. Philosophy The recollection of what is already known in eternity by the soul, but has been forgotten by the shock of incarnation; an explanation for that which is known without having being learnt (Plato).

noesis.
n. no·e·ses
1. (Philosophy) the exercise of reason, perception which works within the mind, rather than only through the physical senses
2. (Psychology) the mental process used in thinking and perceiving; the functioning of the intellect, initiating cognition, very close in meaning to intuition

pangenesis.
n. pan·geni·ses
A disproven theory of heredity proposed by Charles Darwin to explain atavism (the re-appearance of ancestral characteristics in an organism after several generations of absence).

The trilogy can be made available upon request to curators and collectors for private online viewing. They are been held back to be released together. (Formerly known as the 'cull ' tivate' series.)