The famous scene from "North by Northwest" by Alfred Hitchcock. A two channel video installation. In the first channel the original scene, the Hitchcock film, is shown but all the characters, cars, bus and plane have been digitally removed. What is left is the landscape, the camera movements and the architecture of the sequence. The second channel, a slide projection, I act the scene, as the character played by Cary Grant.
With every camera shot, the character is always looking directly at the camera. In effect the viewer becomes the "other". The car coming, the person waiting for his bus, the plane coming, the truck hurling forward....
The videos, shown side by side, in synch, are projected through two bay windows into small dark chambers so that the videos appear to be floating in dark matter. The exterior of the chambers, facing a garden, look like architectural elements, like two air conditioning units. They are built with cardboard and gray wood glue. They are another element of the artwork acting the part, wanting to fit in, but yet different, other, fake.