Simoom

Synopsis : Dragon bones and snakes embracing; skeletons in underwear, flying shoes and bug-eyed aliens are among the characters that comprise the 2006 West Village Halloween parade – filmed and transformed into a subjective extra-terrestrial dreamscape. Here I have reworked my original Hi-8 video into a layered weave of images continually phasing between extremes of abstraction and literal – between an imaginary Day of the Dead spectacle and clocks at play with light bulbs… SIMOOM is a collage in motion, fragmented and cyclic, within open and expanded frames in which its construct is often visible. This piece is grounded in the haunting music of avant-garde composer Lois V Vierk with whom I often collaborate. Vierk’s 8-cello piece “Simoom” from 1986 is performed here by Theodore Mook.