LANA Z CAPLAN:
Panoptic: New Media
Camden Maine International Film Festival
September 28 - October 2, 2011
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 6:00 PM
Asymmetrick Arts
405 Main Street
Rockland, ME 04841
207-594-2020
“When you cut into the present, the future leaks out includes video and audio clips of various lengths played randomly by a computer, creating a “cut-up” collage. The nature of the piece being random and infinite speaks to the visceral experience of chaos and chance, in the tradition of the Dada artists, and in the work of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, known for their involvement with “the cut-up technique”. Encompassing ideas of the extremities of youth and mortality, traversing emotional landscapes, searching through vibrancy and decay, assemblages of sound and Burroughs himself reading from his work are fastened against a montage of fast paced clips of rituals, celebrations and mourning through religious and secular activities, the space between family and solitude, within the vortex of NYC.”
