Trypps #5 (Dubai)
Ben Russell
2008 | 00:03:00 | United States | Color | Silent | 4:3 | 16mm film
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Experimental Film
“APP APPAP APP APAPPAP APP APP APP APAPPAPAPPAP APPAP APP”
“A radically restricted camera was fixed on half of a neon sign in Ben Russell’s Trypps #5 (Dubai) (2008), which displayed the letters “APP” and only half of a “Y” in an erratic, discontinuous pulse. If the mention of Dubai conjures a cosmopolitan skyline, Russell renounces the possibility of seeing even a single street. As Mark McElhatten writes in the program notes, “Happiness is always, incomplete,” and here, in a critique that Debord may have particularly appreciated, it’s a brightly colored sign for a shop that promises everything but sells nothing.”
–Genevie Yu, Reverse Shot
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