Ozymandias
“Nothing beside remains”. An accelerated shuffle through cinematic ends. The film’s title refers to Shelley’s compressed sonnet on the shattered colossus of tyrant Ramesses II. Ozymandias deploys a database of movie cue-dots collected from free digital-TV broadcasts. This ongoing archive of near-redundant time signals provides an archaeological resource to remember cinema’s outgoing physicality, and a method of enquiry into narrative and perceptual processes. "Ozymandias pushes the dot even further upstage, sampling only the four marked frames, and splicing them together into a pulsating, celebratory spotted dance routine. Beneath the dot, glimpses survive of top-corner movie-action: hats, and hair-do’s, curtains and lampshades: an inventory of life’s peripherals. Imagine a commemorative stamp; there’s that rectangular snatch of an image, and a cue-dot floating above instead of the Queen’s head. " Judith Palmer, Don't Blink Now, Revolve, October 2006. "... focalizes filmic articulation via the references for reel changes imprinted on the physical film, and fetishizes the characteristics of genre films". RIPBM, November 2007. >> Clipviewer 2008 > Rencontres Internationales, Complejo El Aguila, Madrid; International Short Film Competition, Stuttgart Filmwinter, Germany 2007 > Animate Artist Award, Encounters 13th International Short Film Festival, The Watershed, Bristol, UK; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid #14, Paris; Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada; EXiS, Experimental Film & Video Festival, Seoul, Korea; OUTPOST presents British & European Legs, Anglia Square, Norwich, UK; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany; Impakt Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands; 700IS Reindeerland Experimental Film & Video Festival, Iceland; Alsager Arts Centre, UK; Arizona State University, USA; Supervillains, S1 Salon, S1 Artspace, Sheffield; Halloween Short Film Festival, ICA, London; Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, UK; ZEMOS98 9th edition, Seville, Spain; Flatpack Festival, The Electric, Birmingham UK 2006 > SparkVideo, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA; L'Alternativa 13th Independent Film Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporania (CCCB), Barcelona.
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