Lawrence Durrell wrote "The important determinant of any culture is after all--the spirit of place." But what determines a culture of non-place?
Bluescreen Blues examines the mechanism of bluescreens, disjointed geography, and displacement. Bluescreens allow a subject to be placed in a different location by "keying" out the background. However, in this digital movie, the "place" is removed altogether, and instead the subjects are walking around in a world of television noise, turning the whole concept of bluescreens upside-down or inside-out. The movie begins with a map, but as we zoom in we come to a boulevard that is digitally created with 3D softward and a movie camera flies by. It then dissolves to static noise, and the imaginary place becomes an imaginary non-place. The people interact in different ways with a tv/computer monitor floating in space. In a digital environment, people can visit anti-geographic non-places.
-Julian H. Scaff
