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Vertices:
DublinBeruit-Seoul is a multi-screen projection video document for three
monitors and a single screen capturing a day in the life of a city through
the medium of cinema. It is a cultural/historical/personal symphony
of cities that have very different architectures, religions, cultures,
sounds, races, gestures, and costumes, but with shared experiences of
a colonial past. With a hidden camera simple scenes are captured from
every day life, following in the tradition of the so-called documentaries
or actualites of the Lumiere films. Each shot lasts approximately 50
seconds, the time a film reel lasted in early cinema because of technological
limitations. The absence of the camera from view allows for a unique
insight into the daily rituals and practices of city life, capturing
"life as it is," to use Dziga Vertov's term. This kind of cinema witnesses
-- through concrete action and in rich detail -- the presence in time
and space of characters, objects, and cultures.
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