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'Striking a Match" marks an enormous leap in both writing and video style for Tribe. After a year of studying Longinus' Rules of the Sublime, this is the first piece created to the standards set for poetry back in 400 bc. (this is the working edit of the Demon, which is too long for youtube,
the final edit won't be posted as it is being submitted to a festival
so there are still rough bits in keeping with their requirements for it
being posted.) Here is the story - In the cosmology Tribe
creates, each person is given one Angel and one Demon to follow them
through all of their souls lives to encourage them to make such choices
as will bring them back into union with the Divine. But in the hands of
Tribe, the Demon has become a figure of heroic longing. Her Demon
strives to share with the Lady he is to challenge, the secret he has
discovered so she may finally bring an end to her search for meaning.
But can he convince her to not just listen, but to make the choice he
presents so that they will both be set free? Featured May 7, 2010 in Herning, Denmark at the Herning International Short Film Festival. Filmed
in Albuquerque, New Mexico "the Rest of the World" is a synthesis of
two separate works by Tribe. The short film opens against a backdrop of
rescue tapes from 9/11 and then begins with "Quiet my Soul". "Soul" is
spoken by the character of War and Tribe films the piece in a strange
green format reminiscent of the Scud Missile films of the Gulf War.
From there, she brings out her cast of characters and performs "the
Rest of the World". Backed with a driving dance tune, her characters
ask "What story will be ours to tell?" Her performance in "World" has
been called mesmerizing and the content of the film, haunting and
disturbing. "There
are few artists that can do what Cassandra Tribe does. Whether with her
poetry, her videos or her blog, Cassandra examines the truths that most
of us can never come close to realizing and shows it for what it is,
both beautiful and frightening at the same time. She exposes our
inner-most workings like the cross-section of a powerful but flawed
machine, our gears and springs, nuts and bolts removed and laid out
before us. She is a true artist. Her
new video, Requiem for a God, is the latest example of Cassandra's
willingness to tear open and examine the very things that make us
human. Shooting the film entirely by herself, she also eliminates all
the little excuses we come up with to keep us from ourselves and our
truth. You see, even when she's not trying to be, Cassandra Tribe is a
beacon of truth and humanity in this darkest of worlds." Filemon (2008 spanish w/english subtitles) <
"In Ovid's fable, Baucis and Philemon were the only
ones who showed hospitality to the Gods when they came, in disguise, to their
city. In thanks, Zeus spared them when he destroyed the
place and turned their cottage into a temple. He granted them one wish and they
chose to stay together and when it came time for one of them to die, they
wished that the other would die as well. They served the Gods for hundreds of years. One day,
Baucis looked up from his work in the garden and saw Philemon walking towards
him in tears. He went and put his arms around her and they were transformed
into two intertwining trees, one oak, and the other, linden." --------- Filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico "the Rest of the World" is a synthesis of two separate works by Tribe. The short film opens against a backdrop of rescue tapes from 9/11 and then begins with "Quiet my Soul". "Soul" is spoken by the character of War and Tribe films the piece in a strange green format reminiscent of the Scud Missile films of the Gulf War. From there, she brings out her cast of characters and performs "the Rest of the World". Backed with a driving dance tune, her characters ask "What story will be ours to tell?" Her performance in "World" has been called mesmerizing and the content of the film, haunting and disturbing. "Ugly Diamonds" marks the first spoken word video in which Tribe began to use masques to delineate the characters of her story. Popular with audiences worldwide, this strange tale of the ugly duckling has gone viral throughout Asia and been featured on a variety of sites. "The Cradle, The Lamb" is a slow revelation of grief and hope. Filmed entirely within the small RV Tribe lives in, the swinging frames capture the moment's of a woman's prayer to God for strength through all she does not understand. This video has been featured on several sites dealing with infant mortality and been used in grief counseling groups.
In a kind of shocking, but not surprising, twist of choices - Tribe dons a wig and becomes Philemon. Performing the piece in Spanish, this video is filled with a kind of eternal ache that comes across beautifully. No wonder her video work is starting to be compared to that of Maya Daren.
the cradle, the lamb (2007)
