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New Media: Bjorn Melhus & Omer Fast
1. THIS IS MY HOME BY BJORN MELHUS, 2011
2-6 MINUTES
Deals with post traumatic stress disorder as experienced by war veterans
upon their return home.
2. This is my Home, 2011
5-channel video installation with
different sized screens, some have text
and others have video and images with
audio commentary of the text ‘this is my
home’
3. Shot Types
• Close up
• Mid length
• Point of view
• Extreme long shot
• Long shot
• Medium close up
4. CAMERA ANGLES AND MOVEMENTS
• Eye level
• High angle
• Low angle
• Crane shots
• Hand held shots
• Pans
6. • Like photographic wallpaper or a • The size and placing of the screens
gallery of ancestral portraits, each flat and the voice reading the periodic text
screen employs fictional images of quotes is intriguing.
domestic interiors and exteriors.
7. LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN (DE), EXHIBITS:
• 54th Venice Biennial (2011)
• The Denver Art Museum (2008)
• Museum Ludwig Cologne (2006)
• Sprengel Museum Hanover (2006)
• The Serpentine Gallery (2004)
• FACT Liverpool (2004)
• The ZKM Karlsruhe (2003)
• The Whitney Museum (2003)
• 8th Istanbul Biennial (2003)
8. FIVE THOUSAND FEET IS THE BEST BY
OMER FAST, 2011
30+ MINUTES
It is through exploration; the retelling, editing, interpretation, misunderstanding and
subjective recollections that the kernels of what is real is encountered by means of an
interview between Fast and a Predator Drone aerial vehicle operator now based in Las
Vegas and working as a casino security guard. The operator recalls his jobs in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, activating the unmanned plane to fire at civilians and militia from the
optimum height of five thousand feet.
9. Viewable on a cinema sized screen in a
lecture hall, it has a story about a
retarded train driver, a family car
explosion/detonation by the US Air
Force and a troubled man being
interviewed by a psychiatrist in Las
Vegas who speaks about them.
10. SHOT TYPES
• Medium shot
• Long shot
• Extreme long shot
• Medium shot
• Close up
• Extreme close up
• Point of view
13. Documentary style video
making backed with narration
The video is being narrated by a Drone
aerial vehicle operator who describes
what is taking place, the aerial shots of
Las Vegas at night are truly
breathtaking, peculiar stories are
visualized, sometimes the narrative is
disconnected slightly from the image,
indirectly referring to the Middle East
conflicts
14. LIVES AND WORKS IN BERLIN (DE), EXHIBITS:
• The Model, Sligo (2011)
• 54th Venice Biennial (2011)
• Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (2008)
• Barbican Art Gallery, London (2008)
• Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008)
• Whitney Biennial (2008)