VIDEO ART

The videos below are made under the pseudonym Morvan Kelm

note: Many of the videos listed below are made under the pseudonym Morvan Kelm

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Desire {Too Much, Not Enough}

3min 33sec

by Morvan Kelm

2018

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Pride

3min19sec

by Morvan Kelm

2018

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Obedience

2min9sec

M. Kelm

2016

Film by Michael Johnson, Music by Crummy Nails, Shot by JR Skola at Dawn of Man Studios

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

Dawn Of Man presents here a series of priceless portraiture works, completed by an unknown artist during the late 16th century and depicting five members of the High Court of the Sad King. The forgotten, sad collection was thought to have been lost forever, but was recently uncovered through a series of unexpected circumstances, restored and presented as such by Dawn Of Man. This exhibit marks the first time that these images have been seen by the viewing public in over 600 years. music: arranged by Gazdatronik www.youtube.com/user/Gazdatronik

Floating video art - 11min32sec - 2009

Floating Guerilla Projection in NYC with Dawn of Man Productions