Obama Night

Project Title:
Obama Night

Project Summary:
Obama night is a sixteen-minute video loop that offers an intriguing representation of time. By breaking the image down into one hundred cropped and offset layers the frame is able to show fluid dreamlike flow of six seconds of real time. This video offers a fresh look at an over exposed historical event and captures an intimate view into a group of friend’s reaction to it.

Project Description

Obama night experiments with documentary video and post-production techniques that mold 16 minutes of un-cut video from a monumental historical moment presented in a mundane way to a distorted examination of human reaction and the movement of time. The 16 minute long piece is able to show six seconds of video on one screen at one time. This is an extension of time in real time. This distortion both limits and expands the viewers perception of the image, they can only see one one-hundredth of each moment as it slowly glides down the screen but as a mass it creates a painterly view of the unfolding events. Each movement exaggerated and repeated one hundred times resulting in fluid dance like motion. Obama night offers a fresh look at a night shot from so many angles and shown on so many screens and goes beyond the politics and examines the reactions of a group of friends.

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