Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke

My artistic practice seeks to confront new technologies, while using vintage cameras, filmed footage and musical compositions. Blurring the lines between the magic of the unknown and unseen. With its length of four minutes, the black and white film Horse Around unfolds like a novel: a short story of a horse race taking place on a sunny day in April of 1984, filmed with a 16 mm Bolex camera, put away and over 40 years later, resurfaced, rediscovered, became alive.

Art and cinema is in a constant dialogue with the future and simultaneously the past. With the acceleration of technology innovation and adaptation, a need to capture “a moment in time,” the ability to create something new from something that already exists, to break the rhythm of the digital machine is the notion I am investigating.
This short film is not meant to be treated as inherently “true,” its meaning is dependent upon the viewers perspective, with sounds weaving a space around the images for the viewer to interpret their own truth.

Throughout my career, I have always focused on creating moving images that relate to my familiar surroundings of the Midwest, while simultaneously exploring the cultural identity and geography of the places I find myself in. Living in Berlin for almost twenty years and going back home to visit was the catalyst to finish this film—not just as an homage to my familiar surroundings, but as a celebration of cinematic memory, whether seen through the eyes of an artist coming home after living abroad, or as a fruitful resource for future filmmakers.

Greg Bannan