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A face appears pontifically over an image of a city apartment at night in the snow. A face like a photofit police portrait, but then in constant metamorphosis: the various parts of the face alter at rapid speed and are replaced by fragments of other faces of different ages and colours. What’s more, objects also appear in this unstable countenance, often technological objects like parts of a telephone, computer chips, but also books and texts. Jumo’s music drives the rhythm of the sequence of images. A couple of time, the flow of images is interrupted by a number of computer manipulated consumer items, whiskey, cola, sardines, which disappear into the face’s mouth. There is a clock as well with run away hands and full of images. In Joan Pueyo’s hands, the electronic structure of the video image is as pliable as it could be. Sóc jo, Catalan for “it’s me”: a self portrait made from the insight that what you are also consists of people, ideas and things to which you relate yourself.
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Jorinde Seijdel
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Camera Xavier M. Butxaca, Editing M. Lluïsa Cuchillo, Music JUMO, With Joan Pueyo, Marta Vallejo and others, Production Joan Pueyo, Marta Vallejo
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