<div dir="ltr"><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px">This video was constructed using extra high-resolution images, as a visual space across which “camera vision” travels. Section by section, moving through the surface of the lens-based image, the surveying of detailed information is transformed into fields of color and narrative. The camera, in this case is actually, a computer programmed crop path, traveling through 3GB digital image fields, using the core spatial and temporal syntax of the moving image: pan, tilt, zoom, sequence. The foundational images are derived from original large format sheet film.</span><br></div><div style=""><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Tonight I would like to invite you to view a short video work titled <i>There, before, </i>2014. A droning camera surveys landscape formations finding points of depth on the surface of the image. A meteorite named Akaba, which fell near Ma’an, Jordan in 1949, reveals the story. There, before opens with an anecdote inspired by the proto-science fiction narrative, Awaj bin Anfaq written by the thirteenth century thinker Zakariya Al-Qazwini, about a being that came to earth from a distant planet. The film unfolds into a contemplative sequence of associations and subjunctive fragments on climate, resources, and geologic time in connection with the Anthropocene age of human impact.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">You can view the video here:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://www.ibraaz.org/projects/84" target="_blank">http://www.ibraaz.org/projects/84</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">ISAK BERBIC</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">There, before, 2014</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Digitized color film, computer-generated imagery</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">4K 60p video, with sound, color</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Runtime: 13 minutes</div></div>
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