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Me/My Bullet
by Vanessa Gravenor
2016, 3’22’’
Original Format: CGI rendering created by Hiba Ali
Presented at lo Schermo dell’arte Film Festival 2018
Courtesy the artist
On November 13, 2015, the artist was struck by a Kalashnikov bullet during the terrorist attack in Paris. To the notes of a distorted version of Simon & Garfunkel’s song The Sound of Silence, Gravenor links the wound on her body to the historical context of the bullet’s production.
The spread of Kalashnikov bullets can be traced back to the fall of the Soviet Union when fighters began selling them on the black market to increase revenue during a period of economic crisis. Kalashnikov bullets later reappeared in terrorist plots in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria.
Vanessa Gravenor (1992, Canada / Stati Uniti / Germania) completed her BA at Washington University in St. Louis (2014) with a concentration in moving image. Since 2015, she has been based in Berlin and in July 2018, she completed her MFA at the Universität der Künste Berlin Media Arts in the class of Hito Steyerl. She has received research grants from the Office of Undergraduate Research to study the right to die movement in Switzerland and biopolitical migration. Since 2016, she has been working on the topic of terrorism and the war on terror. Gravenor has shown her work in the US and throughout Europe, with recent presentations at Kino Babylon, Berlin (2018), the CCA, u-jazdowski castle, AIR laboratory, Warsaw, (2016), and the Museum of Photography, Berlin, (2016). She has given talks at the Salzburg Global Academy (2018) and RIXC Open Fields, Riga (2017). Her writing has appeared in ArtSlant, Sleek, 032c, EXPO Chicago, Bad at Sports, and Blok Magazine.