Matti Harju: EL CENTRO

Matti Harju: EL CENTRO
2021, kesto 07:14

Young Anon discovers the digital root of everything during a school trip to New York and comes to a surprising conclusion.

Notes

An associative and abstractly structured video about the boundaries of communication in the hinterland between analog and digital – a study at gaps between looking and understanding. The mixed form of the work reflects the current space of apparent intangibility and connection. How the past is encoded in the specific recording media and how it behaves after the radical equalization by the internet. The narrator, who remains anonymous, returns to an isolated event from the mid-2010s, leaving unclear its relevance in the broader context. The image, with its combination of an analog video signal with forms of compression, produces a kind of aesthetic that emphasizes nostalgia and alienation.