MADSEN MINAX
  • Film / Video
    • North By Current
    • Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum
    • The Year I Broke My Voice
    • Riot Acts
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      • The Source is a Hole
      • Because Of Us
      • My Most Handsome Monster
      • To Summon And Chase Away
      • Forward Into The Afternoon
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    • Not Mine, Never Me
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Because Of Us, 2017
Synopsis
Over digitally altered found footage sourced from the industrial revolution era and animated skyscapes, a mystical voice guides us through a near-death experience. She begins by describing the experience as a sensation of viewing, similar to watching a movie. Through this format, the video explores the parallels, divergences, and interdependency of labor - capital, consumption, excess, ownership - and cosmology - stars, planets, networks, connections. It suggests that both are alchemical and that the nature of industry, progress and technology, are themselves icons for worship.

Total Run Time: 4:40
Color/Stereo, 16:9, Found Footage, Animation
Experimental/Animation​

​Previous Screenings
Altered Aesthetics, The Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
the dark holes of your eyes are turned toward the horizon, Centre[3], Hamilton, ON, Canada
  • Film / Video
    • North By Current
    • Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum
    • The Year I Broke My Voice
    • Riot Acts
    • Short Films >
      • The Source is a Hole
      • Because Of Us
      • My Most Handsome Monster
      • To Summon And Chase Away
      • Forward Into The Afternoon
    • Collaborations
  • Installs
    • Not Mine, Never Me
    • The Bowels of the Universe
    • Separation of the Earth (By Fire)
    • Like Some Other Men
    • No Show Girls
    • Cuts for Luck
  • Sound
  • Paper
  • About
    • Events
    • Contact
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