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Categories: Video
Keywords: Found Footage | Surveillance
Relevant passages:
Margaret Morse «Sunshine and Shroud: Cyborg Bodies and the Collective and Personal Self»
Jordan Crandall
«Drive»
«Jordan Crandall‘s work ‹Drive› (1998-2000) consists of a series of seven films which, in terms of content, deal with the combination of traditional ways of seeing and new technological methods of image generation. Crandall has combined traditional cinematographic methods with military target-finding technology, tracking systems and pattern-recognition programs. ‹Drive. Track 6›, subtitled ‹projectile/gaze›, is powerfully visualized in two projections. One shows an extreme close-up of a man‘s face. The camera is directed toward his eye, yet his gaze keeps the penetrative intensity of the camera at bay. In slow motion we see how the eyelid slowly closes and opens again to renew contact with the observer. On the film projected opposite, we see found footage of military high-tech technology: radar and infrared shots, target lock-on systems, computer images that are specialized in locating, classifying and identifying moving war machines. The human gaze is contrasted with militarized visualization practices, and compared with a projectile.»
Jordan Crandall
(quoted from: Future Cinema. The cinematic Imaginary after Film, exhib. cat., Jeffrey Shaw, Peter Weibel (eds), The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA), London, 2003, p. 293.)
