Sylvia Toy St. Louis Monography



Sylvia Toy St. Louis Monography
Multimedia Artist
From 3rd of August 30th of September 2018

VisualcontainerTV is proud to present one of the most interesting performer/multimedia artist from the United States.
This is a selected bouquet about the latest 4 year production. Visualcontainer is happy to share the experimental performative research of Sylvia, as moment of inspiration about the boundaries of mind, the body and the media.

 

Video Selection:

QUEEN – 09:47, 2014
PASSAGES, A MYTH – 24:34, 2015
VOICE (excerpt) – 07:54, 2016
THE HARPY – 09:45, 2016
THE VICTIM – 04:05 2016
MERGE – 04:06, 2017
AND SO I SAID – 05:35, 2017
CREDO, A Pilgrim: Character Improv – 02:21, 2017
KILLER JANE – 13:00, 2017
LUCY THE FIRST HUMAN: Lucy Finds a Potato – 03:35, 2017
Sequence 13 – 08:00, 2017
YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD SAY THAT ME – 10:02, 2017
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SOUL,Scene 6 – 10:00, 2018
DERMALIAN: Cmdr Pearce Meets The Reenactor’s Guardian – 02:53, 2018
MEMENTO MORI IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT – 04:38, 2018

 

Sylvia Toy St. Louis

I am a middle-class, African-American housewife who makes movies in my livingroom. I develop stories; create sets, makeup, costuming and sound/music; and do post all solo. I have exhibited internationally since 2008 and been a fulltime filmmaker since 2015. I have a B.A. in Art/English from the University of Nebraska. My awards: Grand Jury Award in L.A. Neo Noir Film Festival and Hon. Mention/Cinematography in Creative Arts Film Festival. From 1985-2010, I was a touring theater artist and a professional sculptor.