Gregg Biermann

Grapefruit

Gregg Biermann

GRAPEFRUIT explores the surface texture of a half grapefruit. The scanned image of the grapefruit is placed in a three-dimensional space and the viewer moves around it as if it were a planetary body.

Timeslices

Gregg Biermann

A sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey is sliced into 40 vertical bars, each moving at a slightly different rate while coalescing in the center of the piece for a single frame. The result allows for fascinating spatial-temporal distortions as the viewer experiences various instants in time simultaneously.

Spherical Coordinates

Gregg Biermann

The camera moves in a variety of ways, examining the inside of a 3D animated sphere on the inside of which a scene from Psycho is wrapped.

The Hills Are Alive

Gregg Biermann

With "The Hills Are Alive" BIermann takes an iconic scene from the 1965 Hollywood musical and reveals another take on the tenderness of this Rodgers and Hammerstein song, deconstructing it down to its smallest components, repeating its moments and reinscribing its music into something completely different.

Orange

Gregg Biermann

ORANGE is inspired by the direct film (cameraless) tradition. This tradition includes works in which the filmstrip is directly manipulated by painting, scratching, or otherwise placing objects on it. This tradition was probably originated by Len Lye in his hand painted A COLOUR BOX from 1935. To create his piece, Gregg Biermann cut up an orange into several pieces and scanned the pieces into his computer. He then took the image files of the orange pieces and “pasted” them directly into the video strip using a photo editing software package. This technique then transforms the orange pieces into what appears to be a random exploding jumble of images when viewed.

Iterations

Gregg Biermann

Biermann slices Rear Window into nineteen vertical columns, each slightly out of phase with the next, reverberating out from a solitary instant in the temporal center of the work where the entire frame coalesces.

Happy Again

Gregg Biermann

Gene Kelly

An experimental film superimposing a clip from "Singin' in the Rain" over itself seven times.

Emergent Phenomena

Gregg Biermann

A short sequence from Orson Welles' CITIZEN KANE is put through its paces and analyzed anew through a series of global transformations.

Labyrinthine

Gregg Biermann

Forty-one separate shots that have been appropriated and excised from the Hitchcock classic Vertigo are repeated and transformed into a composite sequence of concentric rectangles. Each rectangle appears over the last and grows larger over time. The narrative of the original is all but lost and in its place is a hypnotic and meditative display of forms and sounds.

Crop Duster Octet

Gregg Biermann

One of the most iconic sequences in the history of Hollywood cinema (from Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST) is deconstructed and reassembled to illuminate the patterns, rhythms and choreography of the original so as to break through and make for an eight banded kinetic tour de force. As the piece progresses the temporal displacement of each band gets closer and closer until they all unite into a remarkable grand finale.

New York Gradual

Gregg Biermann

""New York Gradual" is a digital-age motion study consisting of three dolly shots taken during lunch hour in mid-town Manhattan. There are three sections, each of which is set to one piece of synthetic choral/electronic music that I composed. . . Within each section the images repeat in blocks of five frames at a time, and gradually advance one frame at a time for each block. The result of this simple pattern interacting with the imagery is a fascinating study of ordinary street life." (Gregg Biermann)

The Sweet Algorithm

Gregg Biermann

Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg

As digital multiples and shuffles of Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni wade through the Trevi Fountain from LA DOLCE VITA, THE SWEET ALGORITHM continues Gregg Biermann's series of films dissecting and repurposing classic film scenes into pulsating, almost hypnotic collage works.