TECHNO MYSTIC uses YouTube as a spirit medium, bringing together seven artist-made films and videos that explore the incongruous co-existence of mysterious phenomena and modern technologies.

 

Film by Deborah Stratman, 2006

 

This film by Deborah Stratman is a short meditation on the possibility of spiritual existence and the paranormal in our information age. Texts are lifted from Andrei Tarkovsky's film 'Stalker' in which the Stalker's daughter redeems his otherwise doomed spiritual journey. She offers him something more expansive and less explicable than logic or technology as the conceptual pillar of the human spirit.

 

The title is taken from a passage about time from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed':

 

Stavrogin: ...in the Apocalypse the angel swears that there'll be no more time. 

 

Kirillov: I know. It's quite true, it's said very clearly and exactly. When the whole of man has achieved happiness, there won't be any time, because it won't be needed. It's perfectly true. 

 

Stavrogin: Where will they put it then? 

 

Kirillov: They won't put it anywhere. Time isn't a thing, it's an idea. It'll die out in the mind. 

 

Video by Deborah Stratman

 

Deborah Stratman is an artist and filmmaker interested in landscapes and systems. Recent projects have addressed freedom, the paranormal, sonic warfare, sinkholes, faith and comets.  She currently lives in Chicago where she teaches at the University of Illinois.

 

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