2003

2 channel synced projection with sound

dimensions variable

total run time 1 hour, 43 minutes

 

The (Quick) Time Machine is a structuralist re-presentation of the 1960 film adaptation of H. G. Wells's The Time Machine. The film was separated into every one of its 'hard' edits, which were then made into discrete video loops. Each loop was then sequenced according to the original storyline across a 40-block grid, read left to right, top to bottom. The soundtrack remains synced with one of the grid spaces at any given moment of the duration, until that space starts looping, at which point the adjacent right video block begins, with the audio proceeding. When the grid fills completely, the process starts over in the top left corner. The film, through its 1000 edits over the length of the original, ends in the bottom right hand corner  the screen.

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