Guli Silberstein
Excerpt | 2008 | 4:00mins | DV | Israel
Guli Silberstein graduated from Tel-Aviv University with a BA in Film & TV in 1997. He lived in Manhatten, New York from 1997-2002, during which time he graduated from the New School University in 2002 with an MA in Media Studies and a focus on Media Art and video editing. He returned to Tel Aviv in 2002 and completed his debut video art project in 2003. Since then he continues to develop his ideas in the form of video art works, which have been presented in over 70 exhibitions around the world, including Transmediale Berlin 2004, Kassel Film and Video Festival 2007 and 2008, and Videobrasil Sao Paolo 2007.
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An excerpt from a flow of Internet video news: a family is hiding behind a wall in a neighborhood that turned into a war zone. The compressed video is slowed down and transformed into a psychedelic landscape, revealing extra dimensions of the image. The contrast between imagery and content creates an uneasy affect; anxiety deconstructed into pixels.
“The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. “ – Andre Breton, Second Manifesto of Surrealism
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