It’s Like Spiders

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Photographer Dafna Levy took a picture in 1992. It showed a cheerful yellow billboard bearing a syrupy poem about the beauty of mountains, something you scan quickly and break off reading about halfway through. It took me a minute to notice the barbed wire, and a minute more to realize where this photo had been taken…

format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Amsterdam, 1998.

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This short is about an argument over dinner, an argument that goes around in circles. What’s unusual is that the dinner goes around in circles too; what’s eaten by one combatant comes out of the mouth of the other, so neither the eating nor the fighting ever has to end.

format: DV video
software: Premiere, Audition, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1997.

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Have you ever looked at a sentence until it stopped making sense? For this short, I took a bit from a little-known Lewis Carroll poem, and repeated it until it lost any kind of meaning.

format: Hi8 video
software: Premiere, Audition, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1997.