Video Gallery
16:20 (Meditation)
A simple 20 minute meditation of the sky and ground, rain and insect sounds. Just to take a few moments to think of nothing, to be calm, a rare moment these days.
All footage and audio was record and edited by Z. Fondanarosa over several years (2016-2020) in NJ, CA, MI, and IL
Ego Death - SAIC 2020 Thesis Film
Three eyes on the back of your head. Three broken clocks in my nightmares.
A young psychiatric patient can’t sleep right and is disturbed by distressing and increasingly strange dreams. They struggle with their psychiatrist and the suggestions he gives them.
This is Z Fondanarosa's final year Undergrad Thesis Film At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This film was recorded on hand processed 16mm film, Super 8 film, and Digital Video. The goal was to experiment with disjointed narrative and experimental film processing techniques to mimic deteriorating lucidity due to nightmare and sleep deprivation.
©WhiteWillowTea 2019-2020
A young psychiatric patient can’t sleep right and is disturbed by distressing and increasingly strange dreams. They struggle with their psychiatrist and the suggestions he gives them.
This is Z Fondanarosa's final year Undergrad Thesis Film At the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
This film was recorded on hand processed 16mm film, Super 8 film, and Digital Video. The goal was to experiment with disjointed narrative and experimental film processing techniques to mimic deteriorating lucidity due to nightmare and sleep deprivation.
©WhiteWillowTea 2019-2020
Second screening in 2022 at the show "Let Them Eat Fake" at Liminal Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dreamer Costume
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This costume was made for my most recent short film "Ego Death"
The Dreamer costume was 100% hand sewn with out a machine. The body was made from my Undertaker costume (featured in God Watching) with some significant changes. The shirt and skit are white cotton with synthetic lace, hand dyed with black ink and fake blood. The corset was made using an altered free to use pattern, this was my first corset ever. It is hand sewn from black cotton and "soft boned" with cotton rope. The tassel earrings are made from embroidery floss, the blindfold is black cotton and elastic and the veil is just one yard of lace fabric pined to my skull. Modeling and makeup was done by me. Photography was taken by Slug Yoshida ©WhiteWillowTea 2020 |
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Nightgown Costume
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Black and white test shot from production. These were taken to test the color translated to high contrast black and white to match our film we were using.
This costume was made for my most recent short film "Ego Death" The Night Gown costume was 100% hand sewn with out a machine. The costume was made from a destroyed antique night gown. I deconstructed the usable parts and reassembled it into this costume. The red parts were dyed using a mix of beet root, prickly pear and fake blood dye I made. The only parts not made from the gown was the wig, tights and ballet shoes. Photography was taken by Jules Cunningham ©WhiteWillowTea 2020 |
