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Title
The Phoenix Portal
Date
2005
Description

In this 'séance fiction’ a young River Phoenix from the film The Explorers (1985) opens a wormhole to contact an older version of himself from My Own Private Idaho (1991). The Phoenix Portal is the first work in Soda_Jerk’s Dark Matter Cycle, an ongoing series of video installations that are concerned with personal and historical experiences of time, and how these relations are mediated by screen technologies.

Medium
single-channel video installation
Tags
Dark Matter Cycle, Hauntology, Found footage, Video art
Website
http://www.sodajerk.com.au/video_work.php?v=20120921063632
 
http://www.vimeo.com/24465613
 
http://scanlines.net/node/2788