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SAM SMITH
CAMERAMAN
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KUNST SALON VIDEO PART I, “CAMERAMAN”
KUNST SALON VIDEO PART II, “WHAT IS TIME-BASED ART?”
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After Cameraman’s highly successful premiere at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, MOMENTUM, in association with GRANTPIRRIE Projects, is proud to bring this film back to Berlin for its first European screening. Shot last year on location in Berlin, this two-channel video installation presents a curious sequence of events that take place between a film set, a cameraman’s apartment and an artist’s studio, involving a camera lens imbued with mystical qualities. One channel of the video conveys the action of the film set and its protagonists; the other interweaves the perspective of the film being shot – the ‘film within the film’. For the viewer, the experience is one of traversing the realities of multiple screen-worlds, and registering the ‘slippages’ between them.
Australian artist Sam Smith has long been interested in the capacity of moving images to manipulate our sense of time and space and to absorb viewers into fictitious realms. This project is the first time he has shot on celluloid film in addition to video, bringing a new dimension to his exploration of cinematic conventions in an era of digital production. Sam Smith is a video and installation artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. At once an artistic critique of cinema and an exposure of the technology behind video imagery, Smith’s practice integrates sculptural form and moving image. He is interested in the capacity of film and video installation to distort our sense of time and space through the manipulation of filmic narratives. True to MOMENTUM’s mission to interrogate what we define by time-based art, Sam Smith’s layering of analog film, digital media, and physical sculpture self-referrentially and lyrically addresses the manipulations of time by both viewer and artist.
