Showreel is a video by Harm van den Dorpel.
He uses an intensified Ken Burns slide show tool to collage found images and screen captures he collected along with a handful of artist friends – Charles Broskoski, Constant Dullaart, Martijn Hendriks, Pascual Sisto, and Ola Vasiljeva.
There are three automatic functions that he uses in the editing process:
1. A slow dissolve into and out of a palimpsest of three to four (or more) image layers composed entirely of imagery appropriated from digital image archives.
2. A slow lateral movement over the majority of these image layers in both varying directions as well as varying rates of speed.
3. A slow zoom both into as well as out of approximately half of these image layers.
There are a lot of recognizable images, but generally it is abstract.
These layered, abstracted images function as an allegory of the time in which the image sharing took place.
It was not one event causing another event like a cue ball hitting an 8 ball into a corner pocket.
It was an overlapping, networked series of events.
It is a picture of shared time.
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