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Orange Film I, 2023
HD Video, color, sound / 6’42’’
Orange Film II, 2023
HD Video, color, sound / 4’7’’
Orange Film I and Orange Film II are two collaborative videos that feature distortion resulting from a camera rig equipped with a glass of orange wine. Filmed in distinct New York sites, nostalgia and disorientation fabricate synthetic portals to a past instrumental to the recent urban development. A recent phenomenon with mythologized premodern origins, orange wine has come to mark a global array of sites for consumption with a homogenous taste literalized as flavor.
Orange Film I was filmed at two adaptive reuse projects in New York: The High Line and Domino Park. The High Line, a former rail corridor turned elevated park, is renowned as a model for transitioning industrial infrastructure into ‘destination architecture’. Its miles-long expanse has effectively attracted art institutions, tourists, and luxury residential development. Domino Park aspires toward the same effect in its conversion of the former Domino Sugar Refinery, emptying out historical brick building to situate a glass office building inside. Orange Film II abstracts a new private sculpture in the public space, recently revealed under a residence tower at 56 Leonard Street in Tribeca. Under the moniker Jenga Tower, the building is a balancing act in many ways, visually accentuated by the metallic 'bean' sculpture lodged underneath it. The reflections of the cityscape in Anish Kapoor’s 'bean' double the distortion of the curved glass in front of the camera.