AMANDA!! Look at Me

Wound Footage- Thorsten Fleisch, view it here

Here’s the video I was talking about. The set up is this- Film footage sent through a projector is being shot digitally. The film ends up jumping the sprockets, getting stuck and melting. Here is where the first sign of noticeable digital video comes in. Overwhelmed by the intensity of the projector light, video had a noticeably hard time rendering (is that the right word?) the blank image. Digital noise and artifacts become present over a blank screen of white. The video even drops frames. Film regains its hold, and the intent becomes clear. First a film degradation, then a digital one, and last both happing together. Geometrical RGB squares and lines meet with the more organic scratches, marks, and color fades of film. I like the idea of purposing messing up digital video, but when I was talking about this piece I kind of remembered it as a Kaufman-esque metajoke where the viewer thinks the ‘real’ video is just playing poorly like a fucked up DVD. I forgot how logical the work was but that’s not a complaint.