Ralph Fiennes (1995)                                                                                                          ↓
9 min / HD / 2014

In Ralph Fiennes (1995), a torrent of a Hollywood blockbuster adapts a futurist narrative for the advancement of moist reality, in which the hierarchy between “real life” and “virtual reality” becomes obscured and or irrelevant.  There is nowhere to turn but to the artificial sensations of the new virtual world. In Ralph Fiennes (1995), VR functions not only as an escape, but as a rapturous resolution for the new millennium, a means to an end for a world always on the brink of collapse.

Time has collapsed into a perpetual non-linear Hollywood trailer. The incessant drone builds to an elusive climax while the original dialogue from the film Strange Days is replaced by exchanges of apocalyptic revelations. Melodramatic and superficial, the subtitles borrow from various prophetic texts and blockbuster films, which in turn foreshadow the Fin de siècle.

Interjected by a strobing green screen, their reality is in between production; a never-ending state of rendering.

Screenings: 
MFA '14 Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts Exhibition