Through a whirlwind of images, Today I Did Nothing proposes a hybrid essay narrative that weaves together quotes and ideas using a collection of objects. The work creates a personal archive, repeating its imagery to entice the viewer into its visual universe while at the same time presenting difficult contradictions about desires, impulses and formation through objects.

Screenings: Montreal Underground Film Festival (2024), Mills Folly Microcinema, Madison, WI (2024), 37th Stuttgart Winterfilm (2024), Antimatter Media Arts Festival (2023), Image+Nation Queer Short Film Festival (2023)

Winner Montreal Underground Film Festival Jury Prize. Jury Statement:

“Kim Kölle Valentine’s Today I Did Nothing connects colorful arrangements of image, sound and text through sophisticated, rhythmic collage techniques. Kim’s utterly original visual language and presence as a performer work to undo normative co-ordinates and taxonomies, unsettling cliches of feminine representation and self-reflexivity. Relations between artist, camera, viewer, image and voice, all remain in motion, producing a vibrant assemblage of potentials that continue to emerge, feeling as if they could continue to unfold indefinitely.”

video, 2022, 8 min. excerpt below.