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Monster Movie is great! I saw it last year at the Hirshhorn in Washington DC and had to watch it twice it was so good. Go see it at Western Bridge! -Andie

link to the exhibition:
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/exhibitions/description.asp?Type=past&ID=52

"Takeshi Murata (American, b. 1974) takes “found-object” images from feature films and digitally re-works and re-joins them in a technique that might be called electronic painting. Each short hallucinogenic film involves thousands of individually rendered alterations and can take up to a year to complete. The effect is like visual quicksand—as viewers sink in deeper and deeper, they cannot recall what visual shifts led from one to the next.

The exhibition will include a selection of the artist’s short films, including Monster Movie, 2005, featuring scenes the artist sampled from a video of the B-movie Caveman, 1981, and Pink Dot, 2006, one of the latest additions to the Hirshhorn’s collection. The Black Box features recent film and video works by emerging and established international artists. This presentation is organized by Associate Curator Kelly Gordon. Films run continuously during regular Museum hours."