| I will always wait (It will never be) |
| Video | dv | Farbe | 8'56'' | USA | 2005 |
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A film that captures Wall Street at a point between deconstruction (the shrouded Deutsche Bank) reconstruction (7 World Trade Center) and destruction (the absent Trade Towers), the phrases "I will always wait" and "It will never be" make possible a lamentation for the tragic September 11th event, at a time when its physical indications are in the midst of upheaval by urban renewal and the flow of progress.
Paul Gabel was born in 1976. He received a BFA from Binghamton University (1994-1998) for his work in drawing and printmaking. During his training, Gabel was a courtroom illustrator for a local television station in Binghamton covering the murder cases Pennsylvania v. Dr. Stephen Barry Scher (1997) and New York v. Guiseppe Cataldo (1998). Afterwards, Gabel went on to work for The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Drawing Center and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2001, he was hired on to help develop The New York Public Library Art Collection and, since 2005, The New York Public Library Picture Collection. Paul Gabel was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania, in 1976 and brought up in Binghamton, New York. Today he lives and works in New York City. Paul Gabel’s video projects (which have explored themes concerning cognition, remembrance, faith, authority, presence and absence) have gained visibility through publication, group exhibitions and international video art festivals. The Journal of Motion and Sound highlighted The Impossibility of Remaining (2003) in their first DVD compilation of 40 international artists. Distribution rights for The Impossibility of Remaining, 2004’s The Seen and Unseen and 2005’s I will always wait, It will never be (Gabel’s latest video piece on the possibility of mourning against the current state of Ground Zero) are held by The Film-maker’s Cooperative, the largest archive of independent and avant-garde films in the world. While Gabel continues to seek new venues for these films, he is also at work on his upcoming project titled, For Safekeeping (scissions, sutures and naming), a video study that follows the processes behind an image archive. I will always wait (It will never be) was recently shown at The Hull 4th International Short Film Festival in the United Kingdom and the Luksuz Film Festival in Slovenia.
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