Résumé:

Dustclouds presents two moving pictures that share a hypnotically rhythmic
compositional flow recalling gestural abstraction. On the left is a loop derived from news footage of the collapsing World Trade Center Towers. On the right is a loop taken from the 1998 Hollywood film The Siege (an action-thriller involving radical Islamic terrorist cells blowing up buildings in Manhattan). The fictional representation on the right inscribes the reportage on the left — it's like a movie. In turn, they are presented like a modernist painting diptych. This uncanny mirroring dramatizes an avoidance of the incomprehensible (such as death and the horrific) through identifications with simulacral references. As such, the piece distills the way in which many people were trying to make sense of events as they unfolded on September 11th, 2001. The trauma of the real, as it is perpetually repressed, becomes the meditative engine of Dustclouds.