Compilation 2013-20152015

"An alchemy occurs when the outer world is transformed into video: it becomes mind-stuff. I carry this process forward by questioning the nature of mediated realty, exploring time and dimensionality and by weaving fragments of the world into new patterns. I would rather cast a spell than make a point. The goal is to create new experiences that allow viewers to see and hear in new ways and that resonate in memory like a tuning fork. In this way video can enjoy the same freedom as painting and music; it can be something, not just about something." – Van McElwee

ELECTRIC PILGRIMS: Everyone is Everywhere, 2015
An intersection of worlds, crowded with apparitions. 12:00

MEXICAN DREAM, 2015
A dream of coming and going, of a world deep in time. 10:40

ORIGINAL SELF, 2014
A procession branches into clouds of variation; one as many, many as one. The sound was created entirely from the voices of Beijing schoolgirls reciting prose in unison. 10:27

SOFT CITY, 2015
Rather than a storyline, a story-solid, a narrative foam. 4:44

AND/OR, 2011
A wandering figure trace tunnels through a space of possibilities. 7:10

DREAM TRAVEL, 2013, 11:45
TRAVEL DREAM, 2013, 10:00
Mirroring the flux of dreams and memories, travel footage from a period of intense image gathering (roughly the 1990s) is woven into a grainy hypnotic tapestry; video into dream, dream into video.