Bit Parts

single channel video & sound work
3 min. 20 sec. loop
2005

“Bit Parts” takes an exaggerated and playful look at the everyday object. The video isolates everyday objects and domestic tasks into melodramatic proportions. The structure creates one rhythmic act after another through a humorous style of match action editing gone haywire. Delving into the bottomless pit of sound/image clichés, the work focuses on image-sound relationships and the role that sound effects play in creating a narrative. Advancing through a set of film genres, (Slapstick Comedies, Westerns, Melodramas, and Murder Mysteries) the video puts quotation marks and exclamation points on cinematic bits in the place of generating a complete narrative.

exhibitions:
Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures, Curated by Josh Siegel, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Contemporary, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Action Adventure, CANADA, New York, NY
VideoMixTape5, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Notes from the Overpass: New Art from Los Angeles and Saint Petersburg, Galleriet G18, Helsinki, Finland
Akklimitizatsia (Acclimatization): New Work from Saint Petersburg & Los Angeles, C.A.G. Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE
11:59, Curated by Parker Jones, Compact/Space, Los Angles, CA
A Single Channel Video Show, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA

screenings:
FilmLichter 06, International Short Film Festival Detmold, Germany
44th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Contemporary Film Series: Spark Video Program, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Stranger than Fiction-Helsinki, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Spark Video, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
Stranger than Fiction, The LAB, San Francisco, CA