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0xC00D36C4 / 17', 10' or loop / 2024 

Single-channel video 

lang: Speech-free / color / HD 16:9 


A short film downloaded off the internet plays out entirely as a series of glitches bearing zero resemblance to the original. 

Statement

A Cannes-selected short film I illegitimately downloaded off the internet plays out entirely as a series of soundless glitches bearing zero resemblance to the original. The accidental glitches, completely unintended by the artist, becomes the grist for this kaleidoscopic simulacrum, or a copy of a copy, inviting viewers to reassess prevailing notions of prestige, derivativity, and artistic agency in an age of rapid digital obsolescence. How new media's mimesis of decay occurs simultaneously as a creative force reminds us that decay itself is not merely an end, but a generative threshold—where corruption becomes composition, and malfunction opens up new modes of perception.


Notes: 17-minute version is silent 


Stills [↗] 

2025 Group Exhibition, 2nd Moscow International Video Art Exhibition (Russia)

2024 Group Exhibition, 5th Rare Effect, Arroz Estúdios (Portugal) 












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