Vintage Visages of Vinegar Vampires
- Video Portrait Art Installation
- June 2021
- Director | Video Artist
Vintage Visages of Vinegar Vampires is an large scale video portraiture show. Emmar, in spending time during the pandemic, found all of the friends he was spending time with to be rather vampy. He had a concept for creating portraits of people as videos rather than stills. Upon installation he found that the portraits acted as mirrors to who he was in the time of the pandemic. This further enhances the vampire narrative, which includes mirrors that reflect or don't reflect.
This was set up at the 500X in an arch around the viewer. Viewers would spend time up to 30 minutes in the installation. It was a slow time for galleries, but the install was viewed by a high number of people in the dark space. It was later shown in October of 2023 as part of the Euphoria show, attended by over 200 people.
The Installation
In the centerpiece of the installation, Azrael Erickson imagines a feeling through touching textures in different cups. Azrael improvised this performance, with no ums or ahs, in ten minutes straight. An incredible feat. Shot on an anamorphic lens.
Anam E is the Firedancer hologram, projected onto a covid shield. Emmar discovered that the covid shield caught light beautifully. There is an overshoot of the projection that creates a twenty foot tall version of the character on the wall.
Anam E danced on a black background with a digital mask to present burning face.
Tony Cooper discusses his interest in the Book of Job. Shot on an anamorphic lens with the camera on its side.
Bryar Bennet is the Vampire in the installation. She is shot in high frame rate with a retroflective background and mask.