I constantly recreate a reality; I create fictions of realities that are ambiguous to allow the viewer to create his/her own reality. Accelerate attempts to capture the urban geometry through the eyes of a person who is in motion: accelerating and the reducing the speed. The vocabulary of the video with its reflections and multiplicities allows a meditation about modern cities. "Accelerate”, shows the urban landscape while travelling but it is also a meditation about modern cities. In Accelerate, light and speed stream together. Light is the only thing that can achieve the highest speed. Light appears with contrasts and reflections and speed with its variations when increasing and decreasing the acceleration. Along this trip, our lives appear as real but also as a mirage.

Accelerate

Dur: 2:53 min

"Accelerate” shows the urban landscape while travelling but this work is also a meditation about modern cities. In Accelerate, light and speed stream together. Light is the only thing that can achieve the highest speed. Light appears with both contrasts and reflections, and speed with its variations, when increasing and decreasing the acceleration. Along this trip, our lives appear as real but also as mirage.

Artist: Graciela Cassel

Music: Gordon Beeferman

The images, condensed into two minutes, respond to the dizzying lights of cars speeding over a bridge.

All of this activity is captured on a camera that turns those luminosities into abstractions that the viewer almost seems to roam around in.

It is an every-day scene turned distorted image by a vigilant lens.

According to Jorge Zuzulich, curator of technology projects, this work represents

“wipes, inversions, split and mirrored screens, slow downs, and sweeps: a definitive grounding of techniques that turn the ordinary into the unusual,

that create distance to allow one to see.” Cassel shows us in two minutes, which is not the real time of her

sophisticated video enhanced by the vertiginous imprint of the music, the accelerated times that we live in.

2016    Accelerate. Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers Palm Spring Award, New York, 

2013    Accelerate, Curate NYC 25, Westwood Gallery, New York

2013    Accelerate Artslant. 1st prize New Media. 4th showcase. 

2016    Accelerate. Anthology Film Archives, New Filmmakers Palm Spring Award, New York, 

2016    Accelerate, Film Video, New Jersey

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