Vincenzo Mistretta
Sfantumata Series #2
Dirt Cheap Abstraction
 
 
By Vincenzo Mistretta
Sfantumata,’ is a mutable Sicilian word heard in the artist's community of Aspra
which can be used to identify something as ‘degraded’, ‘broken down’, or ‘Sloppy’. This video is created by taking various still images of the sloppy displays at Dirt Cheap retail stores and animating them in a sequence where the image changes every two frames.  Over time the sequence loops and is layered over itself multiple times to create a degraded abstraction that evokes a feeling of anxiety and chaos.  The sound was recorded at Dirt Cheap stores and digitally manipulated and distorted to complement the degraded images of the video.
 
$100