Regal
2015, 16mm, color, sound, 02:15
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// torrented/pirated (digital) images as found footage // printed from a household printer onto 16mm clear film //
please contact a.piagett@gmail.com for screener
“The poor image is no longer about the real thing—the originary original. Instead, it is about its own real conditions of existence: about swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities. It is about defiance and appropriation just as it is about conformism and exploitation:”
“….as it accelerates, it deteriorates. It is a ghost of an image, a preview, a thumbnail, an errant idea, an itinerant image distributed for free, squeezed through slow digital connections, compressed, reproduced, ripped, remixed, as well as copied and pasted into other channels of distribution."
“In a way, the poor image is subject to a similar tension. On the one hand, it operates against the fetish value of high resolution. On the other hand, this is precisely why it also ends up being perfectly integrated into an information capitalism thriving on compressed attention spans, on impression rather than immersion, on intensity rather than contemplation, on previews rather than screenings.”
// Such as the loading dial, REGAL aims to circulate and find its way back to the screen. Take this proxy and see that the ghost has become tangible. //
LINKS TO REVIEW
L’emerge Del Possible // Francesco Cazzin
Digital America // Damian Hondares
Streaming on Mubi
Streaming on Digital America Issue No.9
2016 $100 Film Festival, Calgary, CANADA
2016 Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI, USA
2016 Experiments in Cinema V11.4, NM, USA
2016 Moviate Underground Film Festival, PA, USA
2016 Chicago Underground Film Festival, IL, USA
2016 Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, CANADA
2016 MIRE Nantes Film Labs Meeting, FRANCE
2016 Bandini International Film Festival, CA, USA
2016 Fields Festival, MD, USA
2016 NYFF Projections, NYC, USA
2016 North America Future Teaser Film Festival, CA, USA
2016 Antimatter Film Festival, CANADA
2016 New Orleans Film Festival, NO, USA
2016 San Diego Underground Film Festival, SD, USA
2016 Rhizome, Experimental Shorts From Fields Festival, Washington DC, USA
2017 Meconio, Muestra de Nuevos Cineastas, Madrid, SPAIN
2017 Plastik Festival, Dublin, IRELAND
2017 The Best of Moviate Underground Film Festival 2016, PA, USA
2017 Nashville Film Festival, TN, USA
2017 Canterbury Art Conference, Warnborough College, ENGLAND
2017 OFF Cinema, Fort Collins, CO, USA
2017 GAZE at Artists Television Access, SF, USA
2017 Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland Museum, LIMA, PERU
2017 Microlights at Poor Farm Experiment, WI, USA
2018 LACDA Group Show, CA, USA
2018 Artillery Issue Release, Filmforum Video Installation, LA, USA
2018 Cosmic Rays, NC, USA
2018 Marfici Festival, Mar del Plata, ARGENTINA
2018 Iris Film Collective EPFC Tour, CANADA
2018 Save the Archives Festival, UWM, USA
2018 Tai Kwun Contemporary, HONG KONG
2019 Oberhausen, GERMANY
2019 Hazel Eye Film Festival, COMPUTER STREAMING
2020 Agitate at Synesthesia Gallery, NYC, USA
2020 Agitate at Hijack Cinema, NYC, USA
2020 Agitate at Kino Klub Split, CROATIA
2021 Agitate at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, STREAMING
2022 Celluloid Now at the Chicago Cultural Center, CHICAGO, USA
