FROM DARKNESS TO DAYLIGHT

This is a 7-minute single channel edit of a 14 minute 3 channel video installation commissioned by the New Museum in 2004 for an exhibition titled "Counter Culture." The installation presents three animated portraits reflecting on the history and the future of the Bowery neighborhood. The monitors presenting the animated portraits are installed within a sculptural work made of a series of large steel ducts that have been interwoven together.

The exhibition "Counter Culture" occurred before the ground breaking for the new New Museum building at Bowery and Prince. My contribution to the show focused on capturing three alternate perspectives on the transformation of the Bowery neighborhood at the time. The three animated portraits are based on interviews with three long time Bowery personalities - Anton Bari, manager of the Bari Restaurant Supply and Real Estate, Bruce Davis, a resident of the last "flop house" in the Bowery, the Sunshine Hotel and Pedro Bisonoro or Morocho a 30 year resident of the Bowery, originally from the Dominican Republic.

Documentation of the installation, originally at Freeman Alley is available here:
http://ambriente.com/bowery/silo.html

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Film & Animation

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