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Joey BargstendownSide (video jam version) (2009)

Give the Gift of Weird: DVDs by the director • Experimental, Open-Scorce Projects by the composer • Digital Media Opera • Collaboration with writer Thea Zimmer • All Digital Media Projects

Ambiguous, M.C. Escher-like notions of gravity and perspective, shifting orientations of a dancer in the frame, and a spoken text (preferably humorous) formed the guiding principles for down/side, a dance/film collaboration I created with Clarence Brooks in December 2008 and January 2009.

It was shot in two sessions on the FAU Boca campus. The voice-over was supplied by my student at the time, Frantz Deofils. The film is black and white, and posterized to flatten perspective and give the work a graphic quality. The text is taken from Skyron's Dreem Jernul, and the soundtrack pays homage to early experimental electronic music, especially in the use of cathedral-length reverbs, as well as rhythmic text loops reminiscent of Steve Reich's Come Out.

This version is separated into five segments and compressed in the photoJPEG format for easy manipulation by visualists and video jammers.


This movie is part of the collection: Open Source Movies

Producer: Joey Bargsten
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: video jam; dance; photoJPEG; posterized; Joey Bargsten; Clarence Brooks; visualism

Creative Commons license: Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

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