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Graduation Show of the Master Artistic Research of the Universiteit van Amsterdam feb. 2009
Graduation Show of the Master Artistic Research of the Universiteit van Amsterdam feb. 2009
act 1 Frontline Observations
*Act 1 Frontline Observations. (video archive production)
For a period of one year, I observed my front view, the street view, in a surveillance perspective. Direct ‘counter-video’ observations, and ‘surveillances’ from my studio window; capturing the world as it appeared every three minutes in stop motion style, every day.
I discovered numerous incidents where the camera captured peoples producing fiction (photo sessions, film scenes) in front of my house. I spotted A Nazi under a fake rain shower on the bridge, an impersonator of Andre Hazes, fashion shoots and tourist lenses, the floating by of seasonal events; the fiction industry of the very day life outside my window has separated me from real life as well as it brings reflection on the cinematographic thinking.
Not without alienation I monitored through time an ongoing over budgeted city work in front of my door; the sewerage disposal service was intensively renovated for protection immediate flooding in the near future, physically connecting to the waterworks of the Flevopolder of my study. Producing a personal surveillance archive, to reflect on its meaning.
For a period of one year, I observed my front view, the street view, in a surveillance perspective. Direct ‘counter-video’ observations, and ‘surveillances’ from my studio window; capturing the world as it appeared every three minutes in stop motion style, every day.
I discovered numerous incidents where the camera captured peoples producing fiction (photo sessions, film scenes) in front of my house. I spotted A Nazi under a fake rain shower on the bridge, an impersonator of Andre Hazes, fashion shoots and tourist lenses, the floating by of seasonal events; the fiction industry of the very day life outside my window has separated me from real life as well as it brings reflection on the cinematographic thinking.
Not without alienation I monitored through time an ongoing over budgeted city work in front of my door; the sewerage disposal service was intensively renovated for protection immediate flooding in the near future, physically connecting to the waterworks of the Flevopolder of my study. Producing a personal surveillance archive, to reflect on its meaning.