Rough Cut(s), 2021HD Video, color, sound, 12’27’’ loop
Dimensions variable
Post-production: Peakfein Studio, Zürich, CH
With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Cornell Council of the Arts (CCA), USA
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If the recent gene technologies provide the ability to edit, add, or suppress specific genes, in cinema, film editing gives editors the means of recomposing and “re-inventing” an entire (Hi)-story. Starting from these assumptions, the video considers found footage, original soundtrack, interviews, and educational 3D animations, to unpack the visual and conceptual imbrication of film and bioengineering. It explores the space of contact between the two technologies, their politics and rhetoric that allows explaining the subcellular through the mechanic.
Exhibition view: John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Photo: Melanie Chu
Dimensions variable
Post-production: Peakfein Studio, Zürich, CH
With the support of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and the Cornell Council of the Arts (CCA), USA
Watch on Vimeo
If the recent gene technologies provide the ability to edit, add, or suppress specific genes, in cinema, film editing gives editors the means of recomposing and “re-inventing” an entire (Hi)-story. Starting from these assumptions, the video considers found footage, original soundtrack, interviews, and educational 3D animations, to unpack the visual and conceptual imbrication of film and bioengineering. It explores the space of contact between the two technologies, their politics and rhetoric that allows explaining the subcellular through the mechanic.
Exhibition view: John Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Photo: Melanie Chu
