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• description: Interactive video Parking Lot is a 30 minute unedited video take of a winding journey through a parking lot in Culver City, California. The video’s playback is controlled by a small dial placed near the monitor in a console setup. The speed of the video playback is controlled by how rapidly the viewer turns the stereo dial. As the video is transformed into a series of still sequences, the viewer is compelled to study all of the possible photographic compositions in the parking lot while they experience nausea caused by the velocity and direction of the camera being in contrast to their clock-wise arm motions. The end result is a representation of navigating the parking lot that exaggerates the dizziness and disorientation experienced in the actual environment.

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• description: Installation: HDV video projection, stereo sound
  Running time: 45 minutes

  Infinite Depot is a unique document of a space that exists in some form all over the globe. The video’s format is a 45-minute single shot HD video that takes the viewer through a Home Depot store in a fluid dream-like epic, a cinematic technique directly inspired by Aleksandr Sokurov’s “Russian Ark.” The two main characters meander through the cavernous aisles of a Home Depot store in Secaucus, New Jersey, transcending the mundane big-box environment as they slowly investigate and interact with everything but each other. In the background, shoppers zoom by at relative lightning speed, and the store displays become readymade sets. The soundtrack is a composition of recordings sampled from the store mixed to reflect the store’s multi-faceted spaces: the hugeness of some aisles and the intimacy of the showroom displays. The minimal plot culminates in an improvised dance performance by the main character. The dancer’s overstated movements fill the lighting aisles, yet go unnoticed by the Sunday morning shoppers.