DAN
HINDER
Hyper-reality
March 2017
Film - 10:01 loop. (Projection)
Plinth, projector, wall
This piece involves a film projected directly on to the gallery wall. The film consists of a pair of hands tearing, ripping and pulling apart a piece of paper edited with a green screen effect. A complementation of stock footage is presented on the green screen paper compiling of found background screen-saver videos such as waterfalls, sky landscapes, aeroplane landing areas. I was attracted to these videos as they are often neglected, taken for granted, and are used everyday on computers. Ripping apart a flat surface juxtaposes the videos shown of real life subjects. This thus questions the ideas of reality versus the virtual, the real verse the fake and what the viewer is seeing before them. Parts of the film are edited with distorted filters creating a surreal notion to the piece as the lines between reality blur. The film is presented back into the real world being projected on a wall adding another layer of the real and fake. Together this piece investigates the theory of Hyper-reality, the idea of being unable to define the differentiation between the virtual and reality.

