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Animalia Chordata
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
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A wide variety of human specimens have been collected in bottles and placed on view for your enjoyment. Watch as they struggle to get out! But approach with caution – the characters in each bottle respond to your presence. While some beg you for help, others fear for their lives!
Animalia Chordata is a video installation based on the idea of collecting bugs as a child. What if you could collect people?
As a filmmaker, I constantly struggled with the two dimensionality of the cinematic screen. I felt like cinema, like life, should be participatory. Cinema shouldn’t be a static sedentary experience; it should be full of motion, energy and life. I wanted characters to emerge from the screen and interact with viewers in real three-dimensional space; to live in our world, to breathe our air, to appear alive. Animalia Chordata embraces the traditional elements of cinema – character, story and lighting – by turning them upside-down in the form of an interactive video sculpture. The installation disrupts reality. My intent is to immerse the viewer in an otherworldly experience, a world where tiny human beings are imprisoned in a people zoo for your amusement. You, the viewer, take on the role of a sinister voyeur, a giant being who disrupts the natural calm lives of these tiny creatures.
Links: http://www.gabebc.com/instal/animalia.htm
Animalia Chordata is a video installation based on the idea of collecting bugs as a child. What if you could collect people?
As a filmmaker, I constantly struggled with the two dimensionality of the cinematic screen. I felt like cinema, like life, should be participatory. Cinema shouldn’t be a static sedentary experience; it should be full of motion, energy and life. I wanted characters to emerge from the screen and interact with viewers in real three-dimensional space; to live in our world, to breathe our air, to appear alive. Animalia Chordata embraces the traditional elements of cinema – character, story and lighting – by turning them upside-down in the form of an interactive video sculpture. The installation disrupts reality. My intent is to immerse the viewer in an otherworldly experience, a world where tiny human beings are imprisoned in a people zoo for your amusement. You, the viewer, take on the role of a sinister voyeur, a giant being who disrupts the natural calm lives of these tiny creatures.
Links: http://www.gabebc.com/instal/animalia.htm
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo (US) makes interactive video installations, animation, and musical typewriters. He also does animation for MTV and is signed as a music video director for Piranha Pictures. In his spare time he enjoys crashing cars, robbing banks and reading Jane Austen. His film Dada (A Pseudomentary) won the March Slamdance Anarchy Film Festival and several of his short video pieces have been screened everywhere from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles to abandoned seaport warehouses in Brooklyn.