Seriously
Tell me this is not the coolest damn thing you’ve seen in a long time:
http://marcobrambilla.com/civilization.html
I mean, holy shit. Stravinsky, the insane imagery, I could sit in front of this thing for days and still be completely on my ass in awe. You can bet your life I am going to try and get this in the gallery….
Civilization (Megaplex), a metaphysical journey from Hell to Heaven, is portrayed by computer altered found footage. The journey begins under Kurosawa’s “Dreams” volcano, then rises through a purgatory populated by images of suburbia, demolition derbies and shopping malls, finally soaring towards a paradise of beauty contestants, cherubs, bodybuilders, then past the peaks of Mount Olympus to a cosmic portal inspired by Gustav Dore’s paintings, as reinterpreted in the movie, “The Fountain”. Civilization (Megaplex) is an epic video mural containing over 300 individual channels of looped video into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images. - ARTnews
Link: Marc Brambilla’s website
