Description
A collection of films made between 1902 and 2021. A purpose-built algorithm compresses that archive to two hours of screen time, at roughly a thousand times normal speed. Plots, actors, genres, and editing dissolve into a dense stream of light, colour, sound, and rhythm. The work tests the limits of human perception, machine time, and the film archive as a form of technical memory.
About the director:
Viktor Kertanov
Multidisciplinary artist and media researcher. His practice is bound up with conceptual and post-conceptual art, generative and aleatory methods, programming, electronics, video, and sound. His projects work with large data sets, with the algorithmic processing of archives, and with purpose-built software and electronic systems. A central research interest is post-archival art and forms of technical memory. He holds a master’s degree with distinction in Art and Technology from NUST MISIS.