Holobomo is the winner of the Best Video award at the 2010 Avanca Film Festival (Portugal) and recipient of an honorable mention at Videoformes (France). It has been screened at a number of festivals worldwide, including INVIDEO (Italy), VAD Festival (Spain), Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Germany), fLEXiff (Australia) and FILE (Brazil).
Owen Eric Wood (Canada)
video, 2009, 4 min. 25 sec.
In a world bombarded by visual stimuli, I am seduced by images. I struggle to find meaning but when I try to connect I find myself appropriating an artificially-constructed culture as my own. My social interactions mimic staged events I've seen somewhere before. All I want is to be part of the picture. In the end, I become an imitation of life.
In Holobomo, I re-appropriate images and sound from filmmaker Mike Hoolboom's Imitations of Life, which is also composed of found footage, in order to emphasizes the decomposition of context as meaning is recycled and reinterpreted.
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