Accelerate
Dur: 2:53 min
The images, condensed into two minutes, respond to the dizzying lights of cars speeding over a bridge.
All of this activity is captured on a camera that turns those luminosities into abstractions that the viewer almost seems to roam around in.
It is an every-day scene turned distorted image by a vigilant lens.
According to Jorge Zuzulich, curator of technology projects, this work represents
“wipes, inversions, split and mirrored screens, slow downs, and sweeps: a definitive grounding of techniques that turn the ordinary into the unusual,
that create distance to allow one to see.” Cassel shows us in two minutes, which is not the real time of her
sophisticated video enhanced by the vertiginous imprint of the music, the accelerated times that we live in.
2016 Accelerate. Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers Palm Spring Award, New York,
2013 Accelerate, Curate NYC 25, Westwood Gallery, New York
2013 Accelerate Artslant. 1st prize New Media. 4th showcase.
2016 Accelerate. Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers Palm Spring Award, New York,
2016 Accelerate, Film Video, New Jersey