Phillippe Parreno created an encompassing space both inside and out, thusly activating and internal and external relationship with the work. Large format, slow moving, short films, in a large space. The sound lending itself from room to room, inviting curiosity of familiar sounds in one room, while you are watching unfamiliar, slightly obscure screening in another.
I had little to no idea what the video here was about, but I think it was touching on light sensitivities in the dark, and the differences between they way things appear at night versus during the day. Anything that fades out with Devendra Banhart is okay by me, and automatically obscure, and haunting.
I didn't know until after the fact that this was about a Kennedy funeral train, but appreciated the scale, and solemness of the film. The sound was crisp as was the picture, so it was clearly a reproduction, rather than appropriated video.
This dark video follows a young Chinese immigrant boy, and the shadow creatures he sees via scratched in monsters by Parreno on film. It felt like the creatures could have been established by sound, score and absence, rather than scratched into film. I felt they were literally but not literal to the point of abstraction like the rest of his videos, that echoed the fictional déjà vu of Cindy Sherman photographs.
On another note, I could spend the better part of a small portion in the bookstore. Luckily, I was able to narrow it down to two books.
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