GretaAlfaro In Ictu Oculi. 2009, 10 min 35 sec. A table laid for a lavish banquet stands in the countryside. After a while, during which the expected guests fail to appear, disturbing shadows begin to hover over above: a flock of vultures takes their place.

InIctu Oculi: Directed by Gleb Volkov. With Michael Baca, Anna Cajka, Tomás Válek, Miloslav Jandík. An elderly scientist secretly attempts to revive his infant granddaughter before his death.
In ictu oculi” is a somewhat loaded Latin phrase that translates roughly as “in the blink [or twinkling] of an eye”. It’s also the title of a famously (and beautifully) grotesque Baroque InIctu Oculi. 1670-72. Oil on canvas, 220 x 216 cm. Hospital de la Caridad, Seville. The Brotherhood of Charity, the Caridad, as it is known, was one of Seville's major lay confraternities. It was founded in 1565 with the mission of providing a decent burial for paupers. From 1663 the charitable activities were expanded to provide care for the GretaAlfaro was born in 1977 in Pamplona in Spain. Actual, México City (2012); ELOGIO DE LA BESTIA. CENTRO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO HUARTE, Pamplona, Spain (2010), and In Ictu Oculi, curated by Antonia Gaeta, Carpe Diem Art & Research, Lisbon, Portugal (2009). Group shows include Whitechapel Open at the Whitechapel Gallery in Showingthis video to people makes me feel like a better person, and that’s even before I tell them to look up Greta Alfaro‘s other works; In Praise Of The Beast is possibly even better. I remember watching In Ictu Oculi just before we made this record, and it’s always felt like a bit of a totem hanging over the whole thing.

Thephrase in ictu oculi is a Latin expression meaning "in the blink of an eye". One source is from the Bible, in 1 Corinthians 15:52: " In momento, in ictu oculi, in novissima tuba ",

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