Jerome Carolfi came to video and digital arts through his background in art filmmaking and photography. He has been involved with the media arts for a long time and is an MFA graduate in filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute and holds a BA in Communication Arts from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. His films have been shown in the US and abroad at festivals and showcases.
An MFA graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Carolfi has been involved with the media arts for over two decades. His films have been shown locally and abroad at festivals and showcases.
He has just completed a new experimental work, Volo, which is a melding of the theme of recurring dreams with the desire to take flight in one's creative life. The title of the piece is taken from the Italian word, which means both "flight" and expresses in the first person, "I’m flying."
On a deeper level, Volo is also a meditation on the disjointedness of identity and travel. Through the interweaving of dreams with a journey through Italy, the nexus of the film moves through a constantly shifting space between inner, outer, objective and subjective experience. Shot in the days just before 9/11, yet only completed in 2011, the film conveys a prescient, but ominous sense of that incipient moment in time. The film is imbued with a vaguely amorphous sense, portending imminent yet transformational events, vis-a-vis its slipping in and out of dreams, exuding the ennui of that which is not yet known.
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