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Park Sky Split is a study of temporal abstraction and rhythmic structures in video. The film presents an ambiguous black and white image, fragmented into small sections and repeated in seemingly random sequences. Brief moments of repeated rhythms and patterns are quickly broken as the film traverses back and forth across the timescale of the original footage. The film is comprised of a single piece of footage, copied and superimposed upon itself at half speed. Using digital compositing, the differences between the two videos are manifested in the frame as light, while the areas that remain the same across both images are represented by darkness. As the film progresses and this difference becomes greater, the dark areas of the frame appear to tear, filling with light. The rhythmic repetition creates a tension with the audience`s expectations of temporality in film as linear, while investigating the possibilities of visual interpretations of time.

Mark Reid is a new media artist who lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) majoring in Media Arts at RMIT University in 2010. In 2011, Mark is moving to the United Kingdom to further explore his current body of work, which focuses on studies of place in artists` video.