The conventions and style of the postcard’s photographic moment are transformed by movement and sound in this exquisite collection of thirty-second video postcards. Time worn images fade in, only to be suddenly and momentarily released with a gesture, a punctuating sound - and then frozen again. Witty and often poignant, these revealing documents of time, place and memory capture a fleeting, ephemeral reality. We are invited into a narrative of what the artist calls ‘thirty seconds worth of dreams’. Produced in Paris, New York, Rome, Quebec, Iceland, Lisbon, Cairo, Algiers, and other sites around the world, these video postcards form fragments a perceptual voyage by way of the subtle magic of a temporal trompe l’oeil.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Previously on display
17 July 2005
ACMI Screen Gallery
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
B1000087
Language
Unknown
Audience classification
unclassified
Subject category
Digital Art
Colour
Colour
Object Types
Artwork
Materials
Single channel moving image
Holdings
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Master
Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master
VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded
VHS [PAL]; Copy
DVD [PAL]; Exhibition Copy
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan
CD ROM; Master