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Supposedly this is part of an ad campaign for HP in Europe but it showed up on this online magazine first and then architecture blogs. The team reimagined video game consoles as buildings with interesting architectural results.
Source: Amusement
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Supposedly this is part of an ad campaign for HP in Europe but it showed up on this online magazine first and then architecture blogs. The team reimagined video game consoles as buildings with interesting architectural results.
Source: Amusement
Brent Green’s films and constructs on display at the Berkeley Art Museum this month create a folk mythology. Through his art he assumes the role of interpreter and storyteller of parables and fables about simple people’s triumphs and failings.
His works on display at the BAM include varied but related pieces. Filling most of the Matrix Gallery are seven foot high flat wooden figures connected to a drum reel. His automaton choir sings crackly gospel tunes from the reel, sick an old-timey, mind
oversized, pharm
and ethereal gramophone. Next to this main installation is a sculpture comprised of an old steel foot pedal from an antique sewing table and an accordion connected by metal arms. When the pedal is pushed the arms move.
Behind the choir is the screening room. On display is a preview of his long film Gravity was Everywhere Back Then. The film is about a man who builds a house to try and heal his sick wife. The house is built willy-nilly with rooms with variable height ceilings, rooms between floors and all sorts of surprises. The narration weaves the tale into a religious parable implying that this compulsive building is sort of a challenge from God.
Green’s films are often repetitive reusing the same footage and scenery in dreamlike ways. He uses paper, cell, and stop-motion animation, live footage and music to create a mood and tell his stories. His characters and settings are neo-gothic and Tim Burton-esque. One of his films had a stream of consciousness narration that was reminiscent of Slint’s Spiderland album. Two more of his films are playing in the basement near the theatre and bathrooms. His visual aesthetic is comparable to South African artist William Kentridge although devoid of Kentridge’s political content and with the addition of Green’s Christian narrative.
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The show runs through September 12, 2010 at the Berkeley Art Museum’s Matrix Gallery.
The full film “Gravity was Everywhere back Then
premieres at the PFA on Wednesday, June 16, 2010@ 7:30 p.m. Click for details.
Green’s films onlineare here