ACTIVATED MEMORY I
2011 · 6m · Canada
Directed by Sabrina Ratté
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A video work in which landscapes blend the surreal and the familiar through video feedback, 3D animation, and color manipulation, constructing a virtual space where only fragments of reality subsist. Commissioned by Rhizome.org for its Download Program.
Picked by Margot
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Ratté is among the more rigorous practitioners of video synthesis working today, and this Rhizome commission represents a fully realized statement of her method — the feedback loop as philosophical instrument rather than aesthetic effect. The music by Roger Tellier-Craig ensures the piece holds as an integrated work.
Sabrina Ratté is a serious analog-digital feedback artist and Rhizome commissioned it. The work is what it claims to be — a pure chromatic phenomenology — and Ratté has only gotten better since.
Sabrina Ratté constructing imagery entirely from layered analog-digital feedback loops with a Roger Tellier-Craig score — commissioned by Rhizome's Download Program. Pure chromatic phenomenology, no representational anchor.