baker beach

baker beach
year 2005, duration 1:20
footage recorded 24 / 12 / 2004

a simple moment of observation, a concrete video. christmas eve at the Baker Beach in San Francisco about mid-day, four guys sharing a spliff, off-camera. the two channels of the video have been manipulated frame by frame to keep the horizon steady, so their motion is a negative of the motion of the hand-held camera. similar approach has been utilized by many artists already and has also appeared in many other of my videos in various contexts, for example “black angel”, “vestido nuevo” or “the all-seeing eye”.

video is included in collection video concrete vol. 1 containing five pieces made in san francisco recorded over the period of autumn and winter 2004, compiled in 2005.