Gregg BIERMANN: The Body of Satan
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 0:02:50 | USA | 2003

(c) photo: Gregg Biermann

The Body of Satan is the final circle of the Inferno section of Material Excess, an animated version of Dante's The Divine Comedy. Here Satan appears as the light of pure television.

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I was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1969. Started with filmmaking in the late 1980's.
Since 2000 I have been collaborating with electronic composer Ron Mazurek, on a series of improvisational real-time music video performances. These pieces blur the distinction between live performance and recordings by having musicians improvise with and against video recordings, which are triggered in a random access fashion from a laptop connected to a MIDI keyboard. Musical collaborators have also included James McBride (playing tenor sax) in Blues , and Wendy Luck (playing flute, bass flute and piccolo) in Pipes.
Many of my short video works from 2002-2005 involve appropriated imagery from iconic Hollywood films, which include The Waters of Casablanca, Cinema Study, Gone, and The Hills Are Alive have been widely shown. They are made from Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, and The Sound of Music respectively. The original works are transformed with a variety of techniques from narrative films into visual and sonic abstractions.
Presently l continue my work with computer animation and digital video with the intention of incorporating technologies not generally associated with avant-garde cinema into the aesthetic concerns of my work. These concerns include techniques such as 3D modeling, lighting, and texturing. (See Spherical Coordinates). I also continue my collaborative work with musicians in real-time music/video performance.

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Solo Exhibitions

2005 Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
2004 Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2004 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
2003 Chicago Filmmakers, IL
2003 Binghamton University, NY
2003 University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD
2003 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
2002 Millennium, New York, NY
2002 Chicago Cultural Center/Chicago Filmmakers, IL
2001 Millennium, New York, NY
2000 San Francisco Cinematheque, CA
2000 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
1998 Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
1997 Barat College Reicher Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
1995 Union Cinema, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, WI

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