Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Kerry Tribe's H.M.

Kerry Tribe's H.M. is an amazing 16mm film installation described by my buddy as "projectionist porn" due to the incredibly rickety and complex contraption rigged to run a single strip of film between two projectors at a 20-second delay (the duration of memory left within the titular subject's perception after his experimental 1953 brain surgery resulted in unexpected damage) while a single fixed soundtrack is mixed to sync up alternately with one side or the other of the resultant split-screen, echoingly staggered, pseudo-documentary images...all the means to the end of creating a formally imitative examination of memory, brain lateralization, aging, neuro-plasticity, and the impermanence of consciousness and identity.

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