Material Excess: Paradiso2003

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.

APPLE combines the camera-less avant-garde film with the limber possibilities of digital editing and plenty of crunchy titular fruit sounds.

Gregg Biermann cut up an orange into several pieces and scanned the pieces into his computer. He then took the image files of the orange pieces and “pasted” them directly into the video strip using a photo editing software package.

In HIGH NOON REFLECTIONS, simple patterns intervene and the original material (an iconic passage from the classic film HIGH NOON) is transformed.

A large-scale animated movie, which borrows its structure from Dante's Divine Comedy, provides an exhaustive tour of the various neighborhoods of the afterlife.

Made up entirely of useful items and narration that relate to the gray details of everyday life.