Loretta Fahrenholz: Ditch Plains

5 Sep-12 Oct 2013

Overview

Something terrible has befallen New York: a natural disaster, a cyber attack, a mass-possession of souls? Like avatars running the levels of an apocalyptic video game, Ringmasters Corey, Jay Donn and Marty McFly invoke the city and its networks as a space of terror, mutation and magic. Meanwhile, documentary shots of Far Rockaway show the city’s attempt to manage disaster in real life: police patrol the shattered flood zone as citizens line up with jerry cans. Shot in the East New York section of Brooklyn around the time of Hurricane Sandy, Ditch Plains free-styles an abstract narrative about the fatal coupling of subjects and systems in a time of permanent crisis.