H2 (2004)

Cut down to 16mm from a 35mm trailer for the movie Shaft the slowed down voice gunshot explosions and lsaac Hayes iconic music become barely recognisable and monstrous The arbitrary framing provides glimpses of the edges of faces fleeting urban scenes partial text all rendered in cyan negative in a kind of psychodramatic abstraction all the more unsettling than Gordon Parkss originating gangster populated dystopia It is a reminder of how by simply repositioning the frame extant material can be transformed