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Festival of (In)appropriation DVD #1 includes: Khan (Daniel Martinico, 2008) By re-cutting and looping a short segment of footage from Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan, Daniel Martinico acts as a puppeteer, making William Shatner twitch and tweak in various poses, periodically screaming out Khan’s name – to disturbing, and potentially hilarious, effect. This is…
Festival of (In)appropriation DVD #2 includes: Asleep at the Wheel (Mike Maryniuk, 2005) By punching holes into a found filmstrip and hand processing his own images, Mike Maryniuk tosses the viewer headlong into a hallucinatory road-trip. Images of highways stretching ever forward are populated by figures and faces that appear only briefly, like a landscape…
Festival of (In)appropriation DVD #3 includes: Five-Dimensional Vacation 2 (Ryan Lamb, 2010) One in a series of videos exploring issues of time through visual representation. This video appropriates amateur 8mm film footage depicting a 1960’s family vacation, which Lamb found on the Web, and manipulates the image so that each moment seems to visually “echo” until…
Festival of (In)appropriation DVD #4 includes: Interdimensional Headphase (Dillon Rickman, 2011) Using images from the film known as “Turkish Star Wars” as his substrate, Dillon Rickman manipulates the digital code underlying the images to transform them into magnificent eruptions of color, to the point that the original images are barely recognizable. Strange figures emerge from…
Festival of (In)appropriation DVD #5 includes: Crop Duster Octet (Gregg Biermann, 2011) In Crop Duster Octet, the iconic “crop duster” sequence from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest in which Cary Grant is repeatedly attacked by a small airplane swooping from the sky is deconstructed into eight horizontal bands, each of which is slightly out of synch with…
