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Civilization, 2008
Blu-ray disc, color, sound, 02:40 min., loop + info Civilization depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell. |
Cathedral, 2008
Blu-ray disc, color, sound, 09:32 min., loop + info Filmed during the Christmas season at the Toronto Eaton Centre shopping mall, consumers circulate within the multi-level environment interpreted as a kaleidoscopic and disorienting landscape. Cathedral is influenced by studies in time and motion by Frederick Winslow Taylor and Frank Gilbreth. |
Wall of Death, 2001
Single-channel DVD, b&w, sound, from 35mm source 02:40 min. Collection New Line Cinema, Los Angeles + info In the 1930’s carnival act known as ‘The Wall of Death’, a motorcyclist rides around a wooden drum maintaining a delicate state of equilibrium between centrifugal force and gravity. The film editing technique is inspired by Kinetoscope films that were popular around the same time and each of the motorcyclist’s revolutions is presented as a loop that creates the illusion of continuous motion. |
Cyclorama, 1999
9-channel DVD, color, sound 3:20 min., loop Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art + info Time-lapse sunrises filmed from nine revolving restaurants across North America are merged into one space. Three time zones are presented inside a cylindrical enclosure that allows the viewer to observe the moving landscapes from a constructed “perfect” vantage point. |
Sea of Tranquility, 2006
Single-channel DVD color, sound 06:20 min., loop + info The American spacecraft, Eagle, is recreated in a computer-generated time-lapse of the lunar landing site of Apollo 11 in 1969. Years are compressed into seconds while the spacecraft and the American flag gradually disintegrate over time as they are bombarded by thousands of micro-meteorites. The sound is taken from recorded radio transmissions between mission control and the Tranquility base—all dialogue has been removed leaving only the radio carrier signals, static and interference. |
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Getaway, 1999
DVD, color, sound 02:40 min., loop Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art + info Shot from the point-of-view of a passenger aircraft approaching the main runway at Los Angeles International Airport, the high-speed film footage is gradually slowed down to create the feeling of deceleration as we get closer to the tarmac. |
HalfLife (Surveillance Channel), 2002
3-channel DVD, color, sound 09:41 min., loop Collection IFEMA, Madrid Collection Metronome Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barcelona + info The multi-channel video installation HalfLife juxtaposes surveillance footage of video gamers in cyber-cafés playing the popular video game, ‘Counter-Strike’, with a live video feed of the game they are playing. The surveillance channel shows their expressions from the cross-hairs’ point-of-view while the game engine channel captures their virtual actions inside the game-world. |
HalfLife (Game Engine channel), 2002
3-channel DVD, color, sound 09:41 min., loop Collection IFEMA, Madrid Collection Metronome Foundation for Contemporary Art, Barcelona + info The virtual world of ‘Counter-Strike’ is re-photographed from a live video feed from each player’s point of view as they play against each other in the same environment or “map”. The gamers’ actions are recorded as they engage each other in various missions: when a character is killed off in the game, the corresponding surveillance footage of the real player disappears. |
Approach, 1999
4-channel DVD, color, sound 09:00 min., loop Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC + info Filmed at John F. Kennedy Airport, passengers arriving from long-haul flights enter the terminal looking for contact with someone familiar. The footage was shot on camcorders equipped with telephoto lenses and slowed down to emphasize the moment of transition that each subject experiences as they arrive. The installation consists of 4 screens, with a 1-second delay between the identical images in each screen. |
Superstar, 1999
Single-channel DVD, color, sound, rear projection 04:41 min., loop + info Inspired by Yves Klein’s Leap into the Void (1960), Superstar was commissioned by Creative Time to be presented on the Jumbotron screen in Times Square, New York City. The subject appears perpetually frozen in time while the document of the moment itself slowly descends. Filmed in a pre-Matrix era, the performance in Superstar was captured with 180 cameras mounted in a 360 degree ring that show a 1/500 second wedge of time. |
 Sequel, 2001 Single-channel DVD from 35 mm w/audio 02:50 min. + info Film footage of Sylvester Stallone in Brambilla’s 1993 debut feature-film, Demolition Man, is re-photographed through the gate of a 35mm projector. The movement of the film is gradually slowed down until the intense light from the projector arc lamp starts to disintegrate the celluloid. |
 Pulse, 1999 3-channel DVD, color, sound, rear projection 01:48 min., loop + info Quoting Eadweard Muybridge’s black and white motion-study photographs, Pulse presents life-size projections of male subjects aged 8, 14, 24, 48, and 76 running on electric treadmills set to 5.5 miles per hour. They wear heart monitors that trigger a strobe behind each subject. The sections are individually speed manipulated so that the strobes become synchronous all matching the slowest heartbeat of the 24 year-old subject. |
 O% Health (Dramatization), 2002 Single-channel DVD, color, sound 01:00 min., loop + info This is a re-enactment of a stabbing incident that took place outside of a cyber-café in 1999. Filmed in the style of reality television at the actual location of the incident, the graphic content is exaggerated by the treatment of the action and its endless repetition. The term “0% Health” references the condition when a video gamer experiences a virtual death in the game ‘Counter-Strike’. |
 Continue, 1985/1997 Single-channel, DVD, color, silent 00:07 min., loop + info A man walks towards a camera holding a card in which the same footage is re-photographed running in reverse, creating an endless loop where he is perpetually in motion between two finite points in space. The film was created on an animation stand using hand tinted photocopies of the original film footage. |
 Arcadia, 2000 Unique Six-channel DVD, color, sound 02:17 min., loop Collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York + info Presented by Creative Time in the Brooklyn Anchorage, this six-channel video installation of the “Millennium Force” in Ohio, is composed of two towers with screens that show the slow ascent and the 300-foot drop, that takes place in 3 seconds at 92 mph. The towers create a narrow perspective, placing the viewer outside of the particular “sweet” spot from which they could best observe the full ride of the world’s highest and fastest roller coaster. |
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