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by Holly FISHER
2014 / Video / color-b&w / sound / 1S / 15' 30 |
"Not being fish, how do we know their happiness?" -Zhou Dongqing (1291)
GOLDFISH VARIATIONS, like its companion piece THINKTANK, is made from one minute of footage filmed with an iPhone in a Chinese restaurant in Berlin, reworked with 18 layers of shifting video. Music is by avant-garde composer Lois V Vierk, whose work is influenced by Japanese Gagaku music; here are layered sounds from four instruments of a string quartet. Each piece can be projected and/or looped for continuous viewing as a wall installation piece.
THINKTANK, a few minutes shorter, has the same music with a single cut in mid-section, and features a slippery floating text "hacked" into the continuous flow of imagery, in response to current events breaking (January, 2013) as I was in the process of cutting and exploring this piece. While GOLDFISH VARIATIONS is purely meditative, THINKTANK may spark a more edgy sort of contemplation…
| distribution format | Digital file on server (HD) |
|---|---|
| screen | 16/9 (single screen) |
| speed | 60 fps |
| sound | sound |
| rental fee | 66,00 € |