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Chris Tanner is a professional artist known for his assemblages, which make heavy use of found objects. Tanner gave Masa Gibson unrestricted access to all of his smartphone videos, which Gibson assembled into a found footage documentary collage.
PROJECT NOTES:
- The initial library of over a thousand videos was whittled down to a selection of about five hundred, which was organized into sets according to thematic content, color palette, and acoustic features.
- The final edit comprised 257 unique video clips.
- Although there are many clusters of similar videos, no video is repeated in any part of the collage. The similarities within the clusters emerge from the routine nature of the content and Tanner's vocal consistency. (In the case of the more performative videos, there were also often several outtakes of the same material.)
- The project, because it involved so many individual video clips playing simultaneously, required considerable processing power and tested the limits of Gibson's laptop computer.
- The last shot alone, which is about two minutes long and zooms out to an overview of all 257 clips, took 36 hours to render and export.
Watch the full collage (6 min.):
The video is password-protected while it's being screened out in the world. Please contact us if you would like the password!
Chris Tanner is a professional artist known for his assemblages, which make heavy use of found objects. Tanner gave
Masa Gibson unrestricted access to all of his smartphone videos, which Gibson assembled into a found footage documentary collage.