Cinema Lascado: Giselle Beiguelman

Cinema Lascado is an incursion into the Minhocão (Elevado Presidente João Goulart), presented as a two-channel video installation, artist's book, photography, and net-art piece.

Here, movement is created through a scanning process in which images succeed each other by sweeping across the landscape. The result is a sequence that deconstructs space to be reassembled as visual noise, guided by the dominant colors of the surroundings—a kind of revisiting of the surrealist concept of Convulsive Beauty and the aesthetic of the Glitch.

This journey blends low and high tech, the sordid and the sublime. It combines HD video with GIF animation—the first moving image format to thrive on the Internet—and the instability of the browser to create a game of saturation and suppression. This process reshapes how we see and perceive our surroundings and the city, the new and the old, the above and the below, the device and the apparatus.

The images are captured using a Flip camera during transit through a tense urban zone (the Minhocão). Selected frames are then edited using a GIF animation editor. These are distributed across HTML pages and played in fullscreen mode on Internet Explorer using a meta refresh script. The motion between images is driven by this script, resulting in numerous playback glitches and an unstable temporality. Finally, the sequences are captured using screen recording software and transformed back into video format.

This work was commissioned by VIVO ARTE.MOV.