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El-Andalus
clips, (2008)
is
a video made up of five short clips, all under two minutes. The clips exist
as stand alone works, or together. Three include recitations of a text collage
based on excerpts of blogs written by migrants from the Near East. The narrator
stumbles across the English text. Combinations of takes and linguistic breakdowns
are used as an editing device for the visual images, collected excerpts
of footage from southern Spain - the ruins of a Moorish fort, the view across
the straits of Gibraltar, architectural details from Alhambra - which refer
to Europe's old cultural connection to the Near East. Image and text, unrelated
in origin, combine and influence each other's form to elicit new meanings
and relations. |
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