Sari Carel
Endemic, 2010

  


Endemic, a new video shot in Berlin, incorporates a broad collagistic approach to sound and image. The piece engages in a variety of nods and homages to constructivist film, Bauhaus and De Stijl aesthetics, as well as educational television programs influenced by ideas on abstraction, thus reexamining a modernist legacy via its evolution and mutation through popular culture. Endemic is a pastiche of ideas on modern art, abstraction, the modern city and their manifolds offshoots and manifestations in cinema, TV, and visual culture at large. Berlin, an astonishingly green city, offers a rich background for contemplating the cohabitation of nature and architecture within an urban context
Total running time: 10 minutes