By Ali Rahman
2005

In art school, one is generally expected to privilege symbolism over narrative, medium over message and circular over linear. In art school, the term “abstract” is often perverted not to mean “essential” but to mean “ephemeral”. This video was a reaction to a particularly frustrating art class. Rahman decided to buck convention and make a relatively convential video. It was originally projected on three-screens synched to a single soudtrack. The framing, editing and rapid-fire narrative all demonstrate Rahman’s comfort with the medium and with himself as subject. Even if the content seems a little
puerile now. Chalk it up to youthful indiscretion.