30 days worth of footage stitched together to form 7.5 minutes of disjointed cultural happenings

I find this pretty cool!

Everyday for 30 days this summer, Doug Aikten grabbed his camera and shot one 15-second film. (Aitken is a multi-media artist best known as the mastermind behind Station to station, the roaming art exhibit that carted dozens of artists from NYC to San Francisco on a train.) Aitken’s films, which chronicled the goings-on at the Barbican’s recently-closed 30- day happening, were as diverse as the exhibition itself.

In one, Aitken captures Thurston Moore as he strummed his guitar. In another, a bedazzled woman shows off some very impressive hoola-hooping skills. Aikten filmed painters painting and drummers drumming. There’s a fantastic clip of Beck playing a harmonica somewhere in there, too. Aitken unspooled this footage piece by piece on Instagram, where the mini-films lived as homages to the creative process.

The film, like the art it depicts, isn’t about constructing a cohesive narrative as much as it is about celebrating creativity in all its messiness.

Check it out!

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
-Friedrich Nietzsche

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Vanessa D’Amore