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Video Art Record
Dragonfly Eyes
- Artist
- Xu Bing
- Artist reference
- Title
- Dragonfly Eyes
- Duration
- 81 min
- Edition
- 7/9
- Format
- Video Art
- Copyright
- © Xu Bing
What does time make possible here that a still image could not hold?
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Look With This WorkSurveillance footage becomes cinema
Xu Bing's film is made entirely from real surveillance footage, with no newly shot images. Unrelated fragments from public cameras are edited into narrative form. The work turns surveillance into cinematic material and shows that reality and fiction can be separated by a single act of editing.
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