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Joshua Gibson

Joshua Gibson

Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
joshigi@duke.edu
Duke Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 S Buchanan Blvd. Smith War, Bay 12, Duke Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works

Pig Film

Digital art · June 2018 In an empty world, a solitary woman mechanically follows the protocols of a factory hog farm. Her labours are sporadically punctuated by musical rhapsodies as she moves toward the impending end. Is it the end of the world, a program malfunction, or the beg ... Cite

Score and Sound Design for "PIG FILM"

Artistic composition · 2018 I wrote the score and made the sound design for Josh Gibson’s Pig Film, which received its world premiere at the 2018 Edinburgh Film Festival and its US premiere at the New Orleans Film Festival the same year. Called by one reviewer an “hour-long, black & ... Link to item Cite

SenCinema

Digital art · October 2017 A contemporary view of the history of Senegalese Cinema. ... Cite

Journey to the Sea

Digital art · 2015 Cite

Tempo of Tomorrow Revisited

Digital art · 2015 A meditation on tourism and nostalgia. Two travelogues on Cuba intertwine. One shot in 1958 in the months before the Revolution and another in 2014, in the months before the lifting of American sanctions on the country. ... Cite

Theoretical Architectures

Digital art · 2014 The shadow landscapes on hard plaster secure the days. ... Link to item Cite

Nile Perch

Digital art · 2013 In flickering black and white, Nile Perch tracks a fish from a fisherman’s line on Lake Victoria in Uganda to export commodity. This hand-made film is a modern-day parable of the effects of globalization on Africa as well as meditation on the economic and ... Link to item Cite

Dinosaurz

Digital art · 2013 Cite

Light Plate

Digital art · 2012 A small serving of pasta is made by hand amidst the landscapes that conjured it. The instants, transformations, and rhythms of a day in Arezzo, Italy. Shot summer 2011 in 35mm Cinemascope. Hand Processed. ... Link to item Cite

Watermelon

Digital art · 2012 Cite

Kudzu Vine

Digital art · 2011 A train advances through a railroad crossing flanked by dark masses of leaves and exits through the left of the frame, as if backwards in time. A radio program broadcasting to Georgia farmers waxes lyrical about kudzu’s many uses and virtues. The radio sta ... Link to item Cite

Yellow Movie

Digital art · 2010 Cite

Place for Landing

Digital art · 2010 Cite

Bird Dance

Other · 2009 Cite

Deliverance

Other · 2009 Cite

Scene 32

Digital art · 2009 Cite

Siamese Connection

Digital art · 2008 Cite

Cats

Digital art · 2004 Cite

Tommy

Digital art · 2003 Cite

Two Rivers

Digital art · 1999 Cite

Birthmark

Digital art · 1999 Cite