Happy Again
Wow...if you simply want art - this is a great short. I really enjoyed the visual imagery created by the director that is created by superimposing/layering various shots in the...
Gregg Biermann
Filmography
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Iterations
Gregg Biermann slices Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW into nineteen vertical columns, each slightly out of phase with the next, reverberating out from a solitary instant in the temporal center of the work where the entire frame coalesces. The result dissects, illuminates and obscures different...Watch Movie
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Crop Duster Octet
One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock's NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for an eight banded kinetic...Watch Movie
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The Sweet Algorithm
As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fountain from LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET ALGORITHM continues Gregg Biermann's series of films dissecting and repurposing classic film scenes into pulsating, almost hypnotic collage...Watch Movie
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Labyrinthine
Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic VERTIGO are repeated and transformed into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles. Each rectangle appears over the last and grows larger over time. The narrative of the original is all but lost and...Watch Movie
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High Noon Reflections
In HIGH NOON REFLECTIONS, simple patterns intervene and the original material (an iconic passage from the classic film HIGH NOON) is transformed. Each shot from the original material is repeated five times and this sequence is broken up into a four-part split screen, with each...Watch Movie
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Utopia Variations
In this piece, the "Over the Rainbow" sequence from THE WIZARD OF OZ moves forward from the beginning and backwards from the end in half second intercuts. This gradually builds from one screen to a 25-voice split-screen canon in which each voice is slightly out of sync. The...Watch Movie
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Another Picture
ANOTHER PICTURE is a digital age motion study inspired by the "chronophotographic" work of Etienne-Jules Marey. The finale from the Hollywood classic SUNSET BOULEVARD is split into 16 superimposed layers. Each duplicate of the scene dissolves in and out such that it is slightly offset in time...Watch Movie
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Happy Again
The signature scene from the Hollywood musical SINGIN' IN THE RAIN is split into seven layers. Each layer is moving at a different speed and is visible equally in superimposition. At the temporally central point all visual and audio elements coalesce in a single frame. The result uncovers a new...Watch Movie
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Apple
Gregg Biermann dismantles the titular fruit into its component parts in APPLE. A kaleidoscopic collage film in the tradition of Stan Brakhage’s MOTHLIGHT, the film combines the camera-less avant-garde film with the limber possibilities of digital editing and plenty of crunchy apple sounds. - Tom...Watch Movie
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Cinema Study
CINEMA STUDY is a reworking of images and sounds taken from Orson Welles landmark film CITIZEN KANE. The piece breaks the frame into multiple smaller rectangles, each with short video and audio samples from the original film. Part of the activity of the viewer seems to be keeping track of the...Watch Movie
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Grapefruit
Gregg Biermann's extreme digital exploration of a grapefruit makes use of the camera-less film technique employed in much of his work. A scanned image of the outer and inner surfaces of the fruit is put in motion (using editing software) to conjure a virtual three-dimensional space simultaneously...Watch Movie
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Material Excess: Inferno
MATERIAL EXCESS is a large-scale animated movie, which borrows its structure from Dante's Divine Comedy. The animation is for the most part created in a digital process related to the hand-made film tradition. In a photo-editing program, scans of various objects are placed on...Watch Movie
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Orange
ORANGE is inspired by the direct film (cameraless) tradition. This tradition includes works in which the filmstrip is directly manipulated by painting, scratching, or otherwise placing objects on it. This tradition was probably originated by Len Lye in his hand painted A COLOUR BOX from 1935. To...Watch Movie
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Recent Reviews
Iterations
Absolutely brilliant! His films are works of art. This point of view makes this part of the film even more terrifying.
Labyrinthine
Trippy stuff that retains the foreboding vibe of the original film - but chopped/screwed like some of the best hip hop. I'd love to have this as a screen saver.
Labyrinthine
great idea super cool_so much to see
Crop Duster Octet
Very cool re-cut of the North By Northwest cropduster scene by making a grid of eight lines, each of which starts the scene a few seconds later than the one...