It's Calling back Again

This project is a single channel video that was part of the New Media Department screening which took place on Friday April 24, 2009 at the UTSA Downtown campus.

The concept of the piece is based on how retail spaces work on the mind in a sort of unconscious or subliminal way to get the consumer to spend as much as possible. The video depicts an anonymous figure sanding in a trance-like state in various parts of a super-market. At various moments of the video attention is brought to the multiple hypnotic elements at work within the store.

Just one more thing...

For the final project of the semester I am planning to do a single channel video. The concept of the piece is on over-consumption. The sequence will consist of several shots of a figure standing in various retail stores. The scenes will cut from one to the next but the figure will be in the same area of the frame in every shot. The audio track will include various sounds heard in shopping stores i.e. shopping carts rolling, cash registers beeping, announcements on the intercom. As time progresses in the piece the audio and shot cuts will start to occur in a faster and faster tempo.

Sleep Over

This two channel project consists of projected video onto two objects.  One channel projects the 'sublime' dream state onto a pillow and the other suggest the environmental surroundings of where the sleep over is taking place.