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As a media artist, while continuing to work as an independent filmmaker, I am returning to the fine arts with three works that combine arts and media: the Poe Plague Covid Videos, the Video Installation Athens Sanctuary, and my music video Death Driver. I mean "media arts" not only in the sense of using media but also in the sense of "mediated," which is to say with a relation to language and critical thought.
Athens Sancturary
A video installation made with interdisciplinary artist Alisha Trimble. It is inspired by the Eumenides by Aeschylus and Oedipus at Colonus by Aeschylus. It was filmed in an active marble quarry on the side of Mount Pentelikon, from which the marble was taken to rebuild the Acropolis in the 5th Century BCE.
Poe Plague Covid Videos
During the first eighteen months of the Covid Pandemic, working remotely with other artists and musicians, Richard C. Ledes made three videos based on three stories by Edgar Allan Poe. All three of the stories make reference to a plague: Masque of The Red Death, Shadow and The Sphinx.
Death Driver
2024 Death Driver Music Video Death Driver with performance, lyrics and vocals by Richard C. Ledes and music by Silent Strike. This is the song to which the characters Chris and Laura dance in the feature film Ikonophile Z, directed by Richard C. Ledes, with an original score by Silent Strike and starring Betsy Aidem, Mitzi Akaha and T. Ryder Smith. Director of Photography Antonio Rossi, Editor, Alex Kantoros.