Scary Maze

Scary Maze

Production country: 
nl
Year: 
2008
Duration: 
3 min
Edition: 
2010
Format: 
film/video

In the film Scary Maze we see how parents and siblings like to scare their young children. Unaware of the upcoming scare, they are being filmed while concentrating on a puzzle. At some point they are all simultaneously scared, leaving some in laughter, but most in tears. A lesson learned: never trust your parents. Scary Maze is one of many mosaic-films that unite many individual and private internet-experiences into a single frame, a collective experience. The films reveal a synchronicity in seemingly unique webcam-videos posted on the internet. These so called 'memes' (units of cultural transmission or imitation) make up the evolutionary DNA of the internet. The mosaic-films are all collections of unedited webvideos in a high resolution frame, forcing the spectator to select a perspective. These mosaic-films come forth from Verbunt's other visual art (paintings, photography and embroideries) in which he explores the digital self-presentation on the web. These webcam-self-portraits are explored on a micro and a macro-level. How many (or little) pixels does it take to convey an visual emotion? How many individuals does it take to make up a collective experience or meme?

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