PETER WHITTENBERGER

(USA - EUA)

PETER WHITTENBERGER - Peter Whittenberger is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work explores how the nature of the landscape serves as a continuous network of time and history, containing the data of all Earth's species. Growing up in Southeastern Montana, Whittenberger received his BFA from the University of Montana, Missoula in Printmaking and his MFA from the University of Nevada, Reno in Interdisciplinary Art. Currently, Whittenberger lives and works in Reno, Nevada with his wife, two dogs, a ferret, and a cat.

Whittenberger has presented his work at the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Torrence Art Museum, Harvard University CAMlab, Sie Film Center, and Superblue Miami. He has screened both nationally and internationally including at the Digerati Experimental Media Festival (Denver, CO, USA), the Future Visions Festival (Tokyo, Japan), the FILE Festival (Sao Paulo, Brazil), the RPM Festival (Boston, MA, USA), the Simultan Festival (Timisoara, Romania), Chroma Art Film Festival (Miami, FL, USA), Festival Fotogenia (Mexico City, Mexico), the Oak Cliff Film Festival (Dallas, TX, USA), the Capitol City Film Festival (Lansing, MI, USA), Fest Anča (Žilina, Slovakia) and many others throughout the world. He has been awarded a funding grant from the Puffin Foundation, received the Reno-Tahoe Artists Award for Best in Digital Media, and is a Nevada Arts Council Fellowship Award recipient.

11-1S  ALL POSSIBLE FUTURES  - Peter Whittenberger   1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Peter Whittenberger  Director

SYNOPSIS:

ALL POSSIBLE FUTURES: Set in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and overlooking the scenic Truckee Meadows, "All Possible Futures" is a journey through time that focuses on the possible impact of forgotten nuclear waste storage on three fictitious societies, existing many millennia in the future. The societies consist of: alien colonists repopulating a barren Earth, a species that lives in pure congruence with the environment, and a society that revived life on the planet in the model of the Sumerian city of Uruk, hoping to not make the mistakes of ancient Homo Sapiens. All Possible Futures asks what our responsibility is to future cultures and how our decisions impact a future we cannot possibly know.

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            WHAT'S THE WORST                   2'26''                           2015                    (USA - EUA)                                  16:9                                               THAT CAN HAPPEN                                                                                    

14-1S WHAT'S THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN  - Peter Whittenberger  1ª SESSÃO | 1st SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Peter Whittenberger  Director 

SYNOPSIS:

WHAT'S THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN is one of a trilogy of videos titled, The Aesthetics of Waiting. The Aesthetics of Waiting encourages the sincere acceptance of the insignificance of our individual existences. Embracing the overwhelming inability to understand the ceaselessness of time, space, and material, in relation to self, can possibly lead to a path of true freedom in our short lives. The intention of the work is not to disparage the self worth of viewers, but to present an interconnected relationship to all things.

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                        SPECK                                       1'00''                              2020                              (USA - EUA)                                  16:9                                                                                                                                                                               

13-2S SPECK - Peter Whittenberger  2ª SESSÃO | 2nd SESSION

IMAGE PLAY ► International Video Art Festival - VI Edition 2024 (Funchal, Madeira - Portugal)

CREDITS:

Peter Whittenberger  Director 

SYNOPSIS:

SPECK -  Speck is the cautionary tale of a mail-order planet gone horribly, horribly wrong and the power of love, to overcome tragedy.