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A single take video recorded through the holes in a revovling film reeel, this self-portrait renders two images of the filmmaker as he manually draws an educational film through the projector to produce the sound we hear.
The 19th century American portraitist Mary Cassatt once complained that James Whistler "sacrifices the head for the ensemble: because, she argued, he treated the human figure more like a compositional element than a human being. In this portrait I am an ensemble, paired with another self, each of us sacrificed to a complicated and prismatic composition. Situating myself in this particular scene I am not only located in an overlapping space where the materiality of film and digital video interact, in fact my body's own materiality mediates those other two.