Recap (trailer) (2006, 7.18MB, 1:12 min) Says Rick Silva: Recap is a remix of the cult classic graffiti movie Wild Style (1982) where every piece of graffiti in the original film has been digitally crossed out and tagged over with the Recap tag. The full piece is available on DVD as an 82 minute video loop. I find this piece intriguing. I m pretty friendly to formalism - it s amazing what beauty interest a good algorithm (in the broadest sense) can deliver. But here Rick Silva seems to have taken steps to eliminate perhaps too strong rather to render difficult the emergence (partly because the original looks so great, haven t seen it, so even the trailer is, for me, quite irritating, because by definition it covers up [and maybe this is the point - I think the setting hence the mode of viewing probably make a huge difference - I could see this working brilliantly in a gallery where one takes in some of it moves on, digesting, but I think I would rather have extensive dental work than sit watch it as movie] what I long to see.) of casual beauty. Good though! I don t mean to be negative! Better than bland of course, anytime!
