San Francisco based experimental filmmaker Kerry Laitala’s Glitter Gulch “paradoxically plays with the horrors and beauty of consumer culture” in a three-channel, three-dimensional cityscape of haptic chromadepth- that’s right, put your special glasses on- with an accompanying “whimsical melody of desire” composed by Bay Area sound superstars Freddy McGuire. www.kerrylaitala.net
Brent Coughenour In Search of Lost Time
Also hailing from the Golden State (though originally from Motor City), Brent Coughenour uses a non-repeating algorithm to control hundreds of clips from an instantly recognizable television drama. These clips are reorganized across four large-scale projections into “a constantly shifting, eternally-elongated cacophony of ecstasy and agony.” Imagery and sound are never static and always densely layered. www.brentcoughenour.com
Leo Daedalus Low Mass
Daedalus describes Low Mass as “an alchemical proposition…a transformative, disorienting experience”. Starting with commercial music videos and pop songs, temporal and aural distortion turn the manufactured into the meditated, shifting the power and manipulation of this media to unexpected ends. www.leodaedalus.com