In Death’s Dream Kingdom

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Produced in the context of Playing Field, a project of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts in co-operation with IMG/Institut für Mediengestaltung und Medientechnologie, Mainz, Germany, and MECAD\Media Centre of Art and Design of the Superior School of Design ESDI, Barcelona, Spain. Sponsored by the European Commission's Culture 2000 Programme. With the collaboration of ZKM – Centre for Art and Media

Synopsis:
The title came from a verse of a T. S. Eliot's poem, "The Hollow Men" (1925).
In Death's Dream Kingdom has the structure of an audio-visual poem, inspired on the English modernism (experimentalism): dead time without anecdote, collage of realistic pictures with images of the subconscious and a synchronous montage using the technique of simultaneous accumulation of time. The video was recorded in institutions that house disable people whose sense of perception is altered. The sound track - a combination of silence and minimal sounds - was made out of distorted noises from airplanes' black-boxes, mechanical machines and apparently nonsense monologues. The network version of this piece uses the non-lineal possibilities of an interactive interface to allow the user/spectator to build up their own reading, their own path and their own version of the work.

Credits:
Director: Iván Marino
Programmer: Luis Negron
Design: Andrea Nacach
Video editing: Iván Marino
Producer: G. Gualtieri
Assistance: M. Avlle – M. Vila – P. Massarelli
Collaborative work made by Luis Negrón, Iván Marino, Andrea Nacach