PROJECT 21 | Psychic Glitch in Chinatown | Digital video, 2002

"It's a nice spot." A nice spot, that is, for a simulated massacre in a virtual recreation of the exact same space being videotaped -- which is what the author of this appropriated video footage had in mind while he was making casual smalltalk with a local offscreen. While working on the Chinatown project, I was using this footage as a guide for modeling an alleyway and parking lot. The tweaked-out overlaid game footage emerged as a byproduct of multiplayer AI experimentation in the same level. I made a "beat" out of the original audio footage and used that as a soundtrack. The video's resulting juxtaposition of assorted elements can probably best be described as a quasi-representation of the sort of psychic glitch that tends to periodically manifest itself in the mind of a kid who's been playing way, way too many first-person shooter video games.

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