Civilization by Marco Brambilla
Marco Brambilla (director of Demolition Man), brings the world this piece:
Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a contemporary, satirical take on the concepts of Heaven and Hell.
I think it’s rad and trippy as all heck (watch for the Stay-Puft Marshmellow man cameo, Joey!)
Tags: art, civilization, Marco Brambillas, Videos, youtube
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June 24th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
That was one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in a while. There’s so much going on you could probably watch it 10 times and still see something new. Michael Jackson dancing on the grass of heaven is hilarious.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Good stuff! Yeah Rob!
June 25th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
This is absolutely beautiful. It tells such a great visual story using a great use of color and shape. For such a flat image, there is a lot of great depth to the frame (the image of the flexing man behind the concentric circles of clouds jumps to mind). This creates something from found footage that really is amazing.
This video brings to mind the “Open Video Conference that took place last weekend here in NYC. It was concerned with not only the influx of remixed footage via youtube and with the availability of cameras and software, but also the importance of certain legislations to the future of video (primarily online video). The concept of remixing footage was part of the talk of the open video conference. It was two days of speakers on the discussion on the future of video in today’s world, focused on how the medium will change with the tides of time.
I only had the chance to watch the last few hours streaming online. It’s a lot of footage to wade through and they haven’t posted the videos on line yet, but if you care to spend some time looking into the speakers (http://openvideoconference.org/speakers/), I think you’ll also have a strong idea of what this whole conference was about.