Rob Feulner

Nacimiento : , Canada

Historia

Rob Feulner is a video artist hailing from Montréal, Québec. Armed with a stack of VCRs, circuit-bent machinery, and a disregard for electrical shocks, Rob Feulner dives wrist-deep into open machinery to manipulate tape heads and moving parts, creating a landscape of video tracking errors and glitches used to confront modern political malaise. His video art label Bleu Nuit Video curates underrepresented like-minded artists through DVD and VHS home releases.

Películas

Cable Box
Editor
Taking place in an unspecified year in the early 1990s, a night of mindless television channel flipping is slowly interrupted and overtaken by a pirate television signal. A flood of colours emanating from video feedback, warring tribes displayed through a modified oscilloscope, and a flurry of gun violence repeated via luminance keying dominate stations one by one. Abstract imagery through analog video glitch techniques forewarn the passive television viewer that the far-right American political system to come will not be the result of a sudden shift. Instead we will see a rise of increasingly conservative policies followed by a moulding of public perception by broadcast television.
Cable Box
Director
Taking place in an unspecified year in the early 1990s, a night of mindless television channel flipping is slowly interrupted and overtaken by a pirate television signal. A flood of colours emanating from video feedback, warring tribes displayed through a modified oscilloscope, and a flurry of gun violence repeated via luminance keying dominate stations one by one. Abstract imagery through analog video glitch techniques forewarn the passive television viewer that the far-right American political system to come will not be the result of a sudden shift. Instead we will see a rise of increasingly conservative policies followed by a moulding of public perception by broadcast television.
Carmen
Director
"Originally an audio collaboration with Mitchell Stafiej, then transformed into a solo A/V performance for Télépresence II (2018, NYC), 'Carmen' is the story of a woman whose separation from her loved ones is heard through telephone wires. Dedicated to my mom." —Rob Feulner
Forwards, Backward
Visual Effects
Illusory visual and sonic reflection on a stagnant film career both moving forwards and backwards, and not at all; driving 100mph yet standing still.
The Fenestration of Suburbia
Visual Effects
The Fenestration of Suburbia is a melancholic social documentation of a cold Canadian suburb.
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Visual Effects
A young alcoholic ambient musician locks himself in his apartment on a dangerous seven day bender as he attempts to finish his upcoming album.
Video Art for Conditional Malaise
Director
Flowers blooming and floating into the ether, VHS therapy, gesture and growth. Set to an original score by Billy Gomberg.
The Burning Desire in a Dollar Bill
Director
The Burning Desire in a Dollar Bill shows how the special interests of media conglomerates and their parent companies mould our latent desires at a young age, later leaving us confused as to whether we are lusting after the sexually charged imagery or the products being advertised. The film argues that the act of purchasing is the strongest aphrodisiac in a capitalist society, leaving open the possibility that a solution to toppling capitalism is to shift our sexual desires from consumerism to personal freedom from the state. The film was created during a residency at Signal Culture using a modified Paik-Abe Raster Manipulation Unit. A running VHS tape was manipulated using a voltage-controlled eurorack modular synthesizer, allowing the object of desire to be distorted, picked apart, and reveal its true form of capitalist allure.
Puerto Rico Tautology (14 dubs high)
Director
Inspired by the mass exodus and economic debt of Puerto Rico, footage of Puerto Ricans attending a Fania All-Stars performance is dubbed to VHS. That VHS is dubbed to another VHS, and is done so until the image and sound deteriorates and hedge funds bleed the island dry.
Who Are You Mr. Node?
Music
Thee Nodes, a band from Montreal, were on the verge of making their big break onto the mainstream music scene. Upon returning from a tour to Australia, the band experience a tremendous breakdown and is plagued with personal tragedy. Filmmaker James Watts examines the personal dynamics of the rockers, giving the audience a glimpse of the trials and tribulations of a band on the road to success.
Faces of Emmanuelle
Director
Una exploración del medio VHS y la basura subterránea que prosperó en él. Utilizando material de origen de Emmanuelle 6, este DVD-R / VHS difumina aún más la línea entre el arte bajo y el alto. Hermosa cinematografía juntada con smut. Las pausas estratégicas y los errores de seguimiento guían al espectador a descubrir la verdadera profundidad y tristeza de Emmanuelle, aparentemente unidimensional. Altos arpegios sintetizadores y ritmos pulsantes de Rob Feulner. La destrucción total de la película más hermosa que nunca se haya visto, perdido y olvidado en el estante de su tienda de videos local, detrás de las puertas de vaqueros o con cuentas colgantes. Eliminado como pornografía por la mayoría, descartado como demasiado suave por los que se arrastran. Esta es la difícil situación de Emmanuelle.
Faces of Emmanuelle
Editor
Una exploración del medio VHS y la basura subterránea que prosperó en él. Utilizando material de origen de Emmanuelle 6, este DVD-R / VHS difumina aún más la línea entre el arte bajo y el alto. Hermosa cinematografía juntada con smut. Las pausas estratégicas y los errores de seguimiento guían al espectador a descubrir la verdadera profundidad y tristeza de Emmanuelle, aparentemente unidimensional. Altos arpegios sintetizadores y ritmos pulsantes de Rob Feulner. La destrucción total de la película más hermosa que nunca se haya visto, perdido y olvidado en el estante de su tienda de videos local, detrás de las puertas de vaqueros o con cuentas colgantes. Eliminado como pornografía por la mayoría, descartado como demasiado suave por los que se arrastran. Esta es la difícil situación de Emmanuelle.