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Fatland
Fatland is a single channel video that explores the effects and fallibility of amateur handheld video footage as an eyewitness to unusual events. The piece is composed of a single unbroken shot that weaves through the Manhattan cityscape, capturing odd events and visual anomalies along its journey. The video flirts with the insatiable visceral attraction that viewers have towards two parallel types of visual entertainment: 1. Recorded footage of accidents and oddities, e.g. freeway chases, accidents, natural disasters, stunts, and outtakes. 2. Their digitally created counterparts, i.e. computer generated sequences created for blockbuster Hollywood disaster movies and television commercials that strive to create and present the inconceiveable.

Seminal Events, More Or Less
Seminal Events, More Or Less is a found-footage video assembled from clips culled from Rick Prelinger's online archive of ephemeral film. In addition to traditional montage-editing techniques, the piece will be assembled through extensive compositing and rotoscoping work in the pursuit of creating a fluid narrative. The Prelinger Archives contain a vast number of educational, corporate, commercial, amateur, and military films from a bygone era. The piece is an attempt to demonstrate the potential of alternative media outlets, such as open-source media, sampling, and the spread of intellectual property through the internet.

Artist's Bio:
Chihcheng Peng recently matriculated from the Film/Video/Media Arts program of the California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco. His undergraduate studies were done at the University of California at Davis where he studied Creative Writing. His videos have screened in dozens of festivals and venues, including Siggraph, The Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, SFIAAFF, The Pacific Film Archive, SF Cinematheque, and Resfest. Chih grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atomic bomb. http://www.thirtyhourday.net