VIDEOS 2006-00 | Van McElwee

DIAGONAL DRIFT

Imagine a filmstrip of a nocturnal American landscape. The vertical frames, as usual, represent time, but here there are horizontal frames that represent parallel universes.

VAT

Manufactured items are ideas materialized. Vat, created from hundreds of actual objects performs a reversal: the artifacts emerge from all primal chaos into their ideal forms.

FLAG AND ITS SHADOW

The American flag as a symmetrical form with shifting hues, emblematic of complexities and contradictions.

NATURELAND

Elevator music branches and flows in new directions. Unadorned concrete structures exude layer upon layer of natural scenery. These virtual vistas unfold in surges, accompanied by mutating Muzak.

STUPAFORM

Shot throughout Asia over a nine-year period, Stupaform gathers into one moment the myriad manifestations of the Buddhist stupa, or pagoda.

HELIOGOS

Three garden paths twist and turn through a labyrinth of time. The earth orbits the sun as a camera orbits the gardens. Six years are cut and folded as a playful edit-form spins its web.

WAVEFORM MODULATION

In this piece, a radical work of Dutch architecture becomes the raw material for a series of experiments with time.

PROCESSION

In communal celebrations, such as parades, the event creates a new space. A city becomes a fantastic version of itself; a new creature that erupts in the streets and then disappears.