Matt Whitman works with moving image, photography, installation, writing and performance. He has taught at Parsons School of Design since 2014 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This work is a study of the durative moment of montage between three bodies: the digital, the filmic and the human. It is a moment of confrontation between these three bodily apparatuses. It is about how they are constantly at odds with each other and yet, also in awe of each other. - looking and looking and trying to feel the others, become the others and destroy the others. How is it that they can be merged and become something beyond their separateness? How can they, together, become a fourth body?
Super 8mm film transferred to HD video.
This film is from a body of work that gives a textual and archival response to and documentation of perpetual discrepancies - between living and deceased, public and private, physical and virtual - found in moments of contemporary mourning.