Broken Windows— un film de Richard O’Sullivan /

‘Ce film représente les derniers plans tournés avec ma caméra vidéo ; ce sont ses ultimes halètements avant qu’elle ne rende l’âme. Cette pièce démystifie la technologie digitale car elle suggère le procédé complexe par lequel la réalité est interprétée à travers la vidéo (surtout en termes de couleur). La décomposition tortueuse des images suggère la fragilité du médium digital.’

Broken Windows consists of the last footage shot with a digital camcorder - these are the dying gasps of the camera. On one level, the piece might serve as a de-mystification of the digital image itself; the degradation of the image broadly implies the processes by which the real world is interpreted as video. Video’s constitution of the world as image is laid bare, and it is disconcerting to see the torturous decay of the image as the camera fights to maintain its simulation of the world.

On another level, however, the piece implies the impossible mystery of most technology for most viewers. The functioning of the camera, evident in the image only when it fails as here, is something which most of us can’t - or don’t want to - understand. We understand technology so little we must engage with it on a purely aesthetic level as a source of magic or wonder, as we do here.

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