"Apparently Clouds Have the Most Orgone Energy: 
film treated with what is believed to be Orgone Energy"
16mm, silent 1:35min. 2010

16mm film stock that was copulated upon, unrolled in the darkness of the forest at night,
shot with images of clouds then processed. All of these rituals were done in order to treat the
film with what is believed to be Orgone Energy: a bioenergetic force that lies behind and causes
observable phenomena, according to the writings of the psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.

Olivia Ciummo is an artist that works in film, video, sound, and photography to express ideas
on the mediated experience. Concerned with the language of cinema and the mirroring
qualities of photography her work explores ways of disorienting conventional modes of
visual communication into aesthetic experiences. Her work has screened at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York with collective Jefferson Presents, The Pittsburgh Biennial 2011,
Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, Chicago Underground Film Festival,
Seoul Experimental Film and Video Festival, The Portland Documentary and Experimental
Film Festival as well as galleries, backyards and cultural centers, nationally and abroad.
She teaches cinema at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

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