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SYNOPSIS:

A reconstructed assemblage of the opening title sequence from the feature film The Shining (1980) by Stanley Kubrick, “A View of Above” was shot in reverse perspective at the actual locations used in the feature film.

The original viewpoint is now inverted, looking up, and back at the ominous "eye in the sky" which shadows the yellow Volkswagen as it winds its way up the American Rockies to the Overlook Hotel.

The framing, movement, and pacing of the original sequence is replicated shot by shot in duration and in relationship to the sun and weather. The intent is to recreate the original, but from an altogether different perspective: the gaze defiantly flipped, the viewer is no longer a complicit voyeur of the hapless victim.

(all footage shot between 2012-2021)

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ARTIST BIO:
Michael Paulus is an artist living in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Films and videos have screened locally at the NW film festival, PDX film festival, various domestic and international film festival as well as the Taipai Biennial, Scope Basel, various gallery installations and recently as part of CORE, -the Nagasaki-Hanford project as part of an installation at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA in 2018

FILMOGRAPHY:

2018 Nagasaki-Hanford Bridge Project conference opening night. Whitman College,
Walla Walla, WA. Screening of “Downwind”
2015 Gödöllo International Nature Film Festival, Gödöllo, Hungary. “Wind Farm”
2012 39th Northwest Film & Video Festival. Portland, OR. “Chuck”
2010 Fugitive video project touring in San Paulo, Brazil; Austin, TX; Marfa, TX;
Banff, Canada; Dublin, Ireland.
2010 Scope Basel: A Light at the End of the Tunnel- Curated by Lee Wells. Basel, Switzerland.
“Test Anthem”
2009 36th Northwest Film & Video Festival. Portland, OR. “The Preoccupied Occupant”
2009 Fugitive Video Project 2009. Harmony Landing, TN.
2009 Polymer 2009, Hunter Museum of American Art. Chattanooga, TN
2008 NW Film Forum “Local Sightings” film fest. Part of the Rose City Revue curated
by Karl Lind. Seattle, WA “Test Anthem”
2008 Taipei Biennial, “United States of Mind” organized by Karl Lind. Taipei, Taiwan.
“Test Anthem”
2007 Manchester Met. Univ. UK and Arizona State Univ. Traveling selection from 700IS
experimental festival. “The Journal of John Magillicutty”
2007 34th Northwest Film/Video Festival. Portland, OR. “The Journal of John
Magillicutty”
2007 700IS Film Festival. Egilsstaðir, Iceland. “The Journal of John Magillicutty”
2006 Odds and Ends, Gallery Homeland. Portland. Curated by Karl Lind “..Magillicutty”
2005 PDX Experimental Film Fest. Portland, OR. “Randy Stiller”
2005 International Fest of Cinema & Technology. London, UK. “Trans American”
2005 Telegraph One Minute Film Fest. Portland, OR “A Thanksgiving”
2005 Newspace, Portland, OR. The Animal Show. “Alpha & Omega”
2005 Hi Mom! Film fest. Carrboro, North Carolina. “A Gentle Fire”
2004 PDX Experimental Film Fest. Portland, OR. “Trans American”
2004 Aurora Picture Show. Houston, TX. Shorts #7. “The Lord Has Chosen”
2004 Dallas Video Festival. Dallas, TX. “Trans American”

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