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If you search for a needle in a haystack for too long, you start to get bored, then tired, then angry. If you get angry enough, you might even throw the whole haystack away, but then you’ve lost the needle forever…
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1999.
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The letters used in this short fell off a movie theater marquee one Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1998. They’d originally been part of some grand, meaningful words, but now they were stranded and helpless. So I gave them a new home.
format: DV video
software: AfterEffects, Premiere, Photoshop
Pittsburgh, 1998.
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Stoel III is a musical group based in Amsterdam. Its three members (Govinda Mens, Tilmann Meyer-Faje, and Peter van der Jagt) compose and perform musical pieces written for a very remarkable instrument: the folding chair. After years of practice, they can coax an amazing variety of sounds out of their instruments.
This short is a documentation of one of their practice sessions, in the basement of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
format: SVHS video
software: Premiere, Photoshop
Amsterdam, 1998.
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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.
