Current (Reprise) - working title

"Current (Reprise)" marks a return to a work that finds itself curiously outside of time. In late 2000, Brian Doyle shot the work "Current" in downtown New York during a ticker tape parade for the Yankees following their defeat of the Mets. A parade was certain and it provided the perfect opportunity to explore hidden narratives within the event. The video thus documents a storm of information taking over a desolate city. A happenstance fire enshrouded the debris in smoke and implied the destruction of the city, uncannily just in front of the
World Trade Center.

In the Reprise, Doyle documents the first ticker tape parade since the first one he videoed, some
8 years ago. It is also the first parade since September 11th, 2001. Shot following the surprise
Giants 2008 Super bowl win, Doyle used super 8 film versus the video of eight years ago.
"Current (Reprise)" again exposes a storm of information, this time using a new lens in
a new climate. By recording the area now dominated by the missing Trade Center
with older super 8 film, the Reprise seems to echo past the first "Current". While
alluding to the strange time warp that occurred within the first document, it
seems to have been made somehow before its predecessor. It quietly
resonates into the past and future with equal measure.

 

The project "Current (Reprise)" is currently in
post production and seeking finishing funding.

production stills | press kit (to come)