Douglas Gordon’s is a Scottish video and installation artist who’s work has been considered to be about memory and various forms of repetition. He uses material from existing films and explores elements of time. His work is often based on a ‘disruption of perception,’ by attempting to make the viewer conscious about how movies and films use the ordinary procedure to attract them. One of Gordon’s most famous works is the video projection 24 Hour Psycho (1993) which deals with the concerns of memory and perception. This work is an installation of Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Psycho, slowed down so that the video lasts and entire 24 hours. Gordon tries to focus the viewer’s attention to the small details of the film. “While we can experience narrative elements in it (largely through familiarity with the original), the crushing slowness of their unfolding constantly undercuts our expectations, even as it ratchets up the idea of suspense to a level approaching absurdity.” (Russell Ferguson, Trust Me)
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24 Hour Psycho (1993)
24 Hour Psycho (1993)
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Check your references Ashvini - the last quote you mention is not from the text 'Trust Me' . As noted on:
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/24-hour-psycho/
The source is actually:
(source: Russell Ferguson, «Trust Me,» in: Douglas Gordon, Cambridge/MA, 2001, p. 16.)
It is important to reference correctly!
Otherwise good to hear your thoughts on the BLOG>
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