“A Study On Behaviour, In Isolation” is the third film in the trilogy. Set and shot, in 2020, during the lockdown for COVID-19 directed remotely from Milan to London via different digital and streaming devices, it marks a clear unprecedented moment in time. It is a product of the confinement period, technically and creatively. We aimed to work with the constraints and boundaries that came handin hand with quarantine. This film draws elements from both previous films in the series; the private behavior one exhibits when aware that no one is watching, and the frustrations and highlights that are products of this. It is set retrospectively, our subject reflects on the period as a memory but we still feel as if we are with her in real time as she narrates her experiences, emotions, struggles and delights.
EXT. ANGST is an independent film label created by Mara Palena and Jessamine-Bliss Bell. They have a deep interest in making experimental films. They aim to make films that not only exercise their creative and human curiosity but that are relevant to their Individual physical and mental states in the context of their society. They are focused on uncovering the truth of the moment, explored through the actors performance often incorporating elements of Method Acting.
Mara Palena (b. 1988) artist, photographer, designer and filmmaker. Her aesthetic is strongly influenced by her training in the fashion industry, where she worked for the most influential fashion stylists. She works mainly with installations, videos, images often combined in the same body of work. Her films celebrate the collaboration between writers, poets and actors exploring identity in our contemporary society. Combining all her expertise visual arts, fashion and dance her films are planned with specific conceptual aims. Her work has been exhibited in several collective exhibitions, her first solo show was hosted by Twenty14 in 2016. Her work has been selected and exhibited during LA Photomonth 2017 and Lucie Foundation Los Angeles. Recently she had her solo exhibition Oikeiôsis, study of introspection, curated by Twenty14 and patroned by Casa D’aste Pananti at Pananti Atelier in Milan.
Jessamine-Bliss Bell Actor, writer. Jessamine is based between London and Paris. She studied acting at The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York, completing their conservatory program. She has starred in a number of short and feature films including A Study On Behaviour, Sequences Of An Ordinary Day (Blow Up International Film Festival, Indie Visions Film Festival), Salt (NFTS), Backdraft II (Universal Studios), Trick Or Treat (Marbella Film Festival 2019, Evolutionary Films) TV appearances include Pure (Channel 4). Her next releases include Imogen (BFI, produced by Margo Mars and Alma Har’el) which will premiere at AMDOCS 2020 in Palm Springs and The Way We Were, a documentary fairy tale produced by Flare Film and Wim Wenders. Play readings include The Goodnight Girl and Platform Present’s This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonnergan at the Playground Theatre. Jessamine is the writer for Ext. Angst.
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Anna Maria Maiolino
Sotto Voce
2016
Video, sound
6’46”
Voice: Anna Maria Maiolino
Edition: Anna Maria Maiolino and Mateus Pires
Courtesy of the Artist and Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milano