User:Solarcher

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The Earth Is Not At Rest This is a video. in total it lasts somewhere between 10 and fifteen minutes. there is no sound. It is on a large flatscreen monitor. perhaps 55 inch. i forget. throughout there are italicised subtitles. they are generally portentous in tone and a little conversational. It opens with a handheld shot of the moon, out of focus, roaming through dark leaves which dominate the frame. over this, in white text reads "I Sun & Moon". as the video progresses it becomes clear that these are chapter headings. there are 5 sections in total; Sun & Moon, Venus & Mars, Jupiter & Saturn, Uranus & Neptune, and Mercury & Pluto. each chapter ends with a header reading dates and astronomical transits. The majority of the shots are slow, dark tracking shots of spaces in a park. It appears to be around dusk. the figures of 2 caryatids recur sporadically throughout. In chapter 2 after a long slow out of focus shot which resolves to be the back of a head with red hair surrounded by a nimbus of brightly lit greenery, a woman with short red hair dressed in jogging clothes stretches in poses similar to those of the statues. the shots of generally depopulated, except for a child on a bike who cycles across in section 4 and a group of men dressed in white, in the middle distance and out of focus. playing boules. The final chapter ends with a handheld shot attempting to follow a swiftly moving flying object among dark leaves and with a shallow depth of field, then cuts to the opening shot of the moon.

Crust this also is a video. It opens with a road. at high speed and shaky and through strong dappled light, it is summer in the countryside. there is a slightly syncopated rhythmic pulse and a smear or imperfection on the lens. As the camera approaches a village and slows down a female computer voice begins to speak. the screen cuts to black. the camera searches among pale leafy shapes in the dark. the narrator recounts a story about a deep sea experimental mission to drill to the core of the earth. among all the creatures which persist around volcanic vents the mission goes wrong and something living escapes from beneath the crust. throughout, the percussive sounds comes and goes, relative to the presence of drilling in the narrative. the pale leaves cut to a roaming shot cominated by red of some ambiguously animal or plant looking things. the screen flashes and phases through colours in time with the percussion. around 2 two thirds of the way through the shot cuts to a sea at sunset. the horizon bisects the screen. the sea is moving in slow motion. it continues to pulse colours in time. the narration continues and describes its becoming aware as the mind of the drilling submarine and continues to describe the rising awareness of the world of objects now autonomous and carrying out their functions without the input of humans. cut to black and end.

Grendel. A video. Shown on a 21 inch sony PMV Display Monitor. upon a table, in a room half living room, half gallery. There are Headphones.