Seek Assistance |
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Director & Producer: Vishal Shah
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Sound: Adam Stansbie |
Performances: Seb Humprey & Lewis Campbell |
Audio: On |
Distribution format: DVD Pal & DigiBeta |
Duration: 3'03' |
Seek Assistance (DigiBeta) Limited Edition |
Edition Size - 3 |
| 'Seek Assistance' is an aesthically dark myth projected as noise and interference which intensifies with intrigue and mystery. The delicate investigation of micro materials is echoed by intricate lighting effects that appear to print the subject upon one's eye. This micro interplay between sight and sound firstly illuminates the subject yet hints at macro forms that exist past the light, beyond any sound, and ultimately transcend the physical frame. | |
| In this video Vishal exploits a halftone image; the process used in print to reproduce an image with continuous tone is sequenced to create a series of still moving images, which is printed / projected by light onto a subject. | |
'The video 'Seek Assistance' takes us to the starting point of a tube journey when our valid ticket is rejected. The system refuses to allow our passage. This is a work composed out of sharp and exact editing, distinct configurations of abstract light, form and image within the suggestion of a narrative collision. Visually there are strong hints of early modernist cinema and photography, Man Ray, Rodchenko and Moholy Nagy appear as possible reference meeting visual forms that derives from a fast world of commercial video. We are left in a state of an in-between of passage, combined with interruption and detour. This is the place that a subject might either be composed or undone.' |
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