Unzip, Make Another Round

"Unzip, Make Another Round" is the twelfth in the series of 16 videos to "One Flushed Cheek," a collaborative project between Seth Weiner & Sadie Siegel and Maggessi/Morusiewicz. An integral part of a conceptual package consisting of a double music album and an exhibition installation, the project's videowork combines original footage, shot over the past years by Maggessi/Morusiewicz, with footage found in online-based film archives and shadow libraries, which displays the duo’s compulsive fascination with popular/underground films and video art from the 1960s–1990s, as well as auteur cinema. "Unzip, Make Another Round" samples footage from "Black TV" (dir. Aldo Tambellini, 1969), using it as a portal-making mask, embedded onto one background element of the video's primary footage. The mask appears as a reaction to a recurring glitch, one that was caused through the original-footage transfer into a different frame-rate setting.