MIRROR/TARKOVSKY [ A REDOX ] UP ON PSYCHO HOLOSUITE'S YOUTUBE PAGE
A videowork I helped voice + assemble is up on Psycho Holosuite's YouTube page today. YOU CAN VIEW IT'S FULL HOUR AND 48 MINUTES HERE. It's a symbolist collage redoxxing of Soviet masterpiece MIRROR [1975; directed by Andrei Tarkovsky] . Thank you to Oli Johns for asking me to collaborate on this, teaching me how to fade in/fade out, fixing the instances in which I fucked up the fade ins/fade outs, encouraging me to write subtitles, forgiving me when I hung him out to dry by failing to attempt a proper Russian accent, and letting me whisper about Faust. I also hold Oli partially responsible for the fact that I've just purchased a copy of Tarkovsky's diaries. Wtf is this? Using the original MIRROR as a foundation thread throughout, Oli and I basically reinterpreted, replaced, re-poeticized, re-symbolized, reterritorialized, renovated, messed up, muddied, mutated, subtitled Tarkovsky's MIRROR into a new MIRROR. Mostly we used only Soviet films for the inserted c...
