PHASE #4: THE ETERNAL NETWORK / HALL OF MIRRORS

Video#1

our first video is composed of footage of the human form, most of the footage dates to 1890-1910. i attempted to find the oldest footage for the asthestic quality of the grain. two of the four videos are of Thomas Edison's early films. Eugen Sandow is the body builder and and the deteriorating film creates lines in the footage that almost frame and contort to his muscles. the others are slightly better quality of couples dancing. the conceptual aspect of this film is not very developed for i understood the project and the manipulation that is going to occur to it. it is left open for interpretation but acts as an aesthetic starting point; focusing on the human form and how it moves and is captured on film.
the audio for this piece is something i constructed, it is samples of a 8mm film projectors motor running on and off. samples of old reel-to-reel tape recorder running and small percussion. i recorded AM radio filtering through channels continuous throughout and placed some synthesizers on it for melodic content. the audio and the video deal a lot with the tools (projectors/film/radio) that the piece is constructed from. While the human form is the subject what i find interesting is listening and seeing the evidence of the mechanisms that produced the work and how they interact with the final product.

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