Watching Pippilotti’s videos was the weirdest consecutive 41 minutes and 56 seconds I’ve had to endure this semester. Maybe it was an intervention from the universe the video wouldn’t play all of its 73:12 minutes, but I can say this: Technology gave this woman an interesting way of expressing herself through video art.

It started off cute and funny with “I’m not the girl who misses much.” She was playing with the speed of the video which distorted her voice to sound like a little squirrel while she was jumping up and down. It became interesting when Pippilotti played the video slow and we could feel the song as more intense rather than a comical peep show. But video art is supposed to shock. I was proved right at minute 5:59. Definitely not funny, OR CUTE… and shocking. Trying not to stand on my head to see if I could understand this better, I went on to watch a third of the entire collection.

Because it was getting very redundant and I clearly was not getting the idea, I decided to play it on the background while I read emails. After 6 minutes or so, I begin hearing a melodic guitar and the funny voice again. I switched back to the video and what do I see? I woman giving birth! Not the most welcoming sight I tell you… It shocked me enough to go back and read the title of the video. I’m not sure if this is it but when I translated it, it made the video make sense.

“Als der bruder meiner mutter geboren wurde roch es nach wilden birnenbluten vor dem braungebrannten sims”

Translated

“As the brother of my mother was born there was a smell of wild pears bleed before the tanned sims”

Yes that makes sense… and thank you Google Translator.

After this, the most interesting video came on, but I dare not comment on it. I won’t post the link to the videos either, but you have the name of the artist. So if you’re dying to see her work, go ahead and Google her. Just don’t blame it on me.