It rains on everyone
It rains on everyone, 2018. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 4’06’’.
It rains on everyone from paul on Vimeo.
Work Description
Video
The Rope
The Rope, 2018. Video, format 16:9.
The camera is recording the movement of a rope that is at the center of the viewer attention. The tension between the rope and nature is dissolved through the hypnotic movement of the rope and its constant fluctuation between the colors green and blue.
Work Description
Video
Master-Slave Dialectic
Master Slave Dialectic, 2011. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 7’08’’.
The video shows the encounter between a self-conscious being and a non self conscious object, where the director is engaged in a struggle with the camera in order to enslave it, only to find that this does not give him the control over the machine he had sought.
Master-slave dialectic from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
Work Description
Video
It's Confusing These Days
It's Confusing These Days, 2010. Video Installation, free Standing Inclined Gibson board : 2.5x1.8 meter, video Format 4:3 (.mov) PAL, length of video: 14’19’’ looped.
The natural Still-leben environment pictured in the opening scene is disturbed by sudden movement and human interaction; silently, the natural element is cut into pieces and thereby displaced from its original existence. The cyclic movement of the actor coming, making and going, questions the transitory of people as opposed to the constancy of their surroundings; are we actors or directors in the world we enter ?
Installation View.1
Installation View.2
Work Description
Documentation
Video
Gun
Gun, 2012. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 6’15’’.
Three people are shooting with a gun. The picture neither reveals their identities nor what they are aiming at.
The intensity and mystery of the image versus the sad poetic music leaves the viewer in a wondering state.
Gun from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
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Video
Gray Clouds Obscure The Sun
The Far Side of Light
The Far Side of Light, 2012. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 6’28’’.
The camera is recording two images of the same object; the back of the candle and its reflection on the mirror.
The Far Side of Light from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
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Video
Tedium
Tedium, 2012. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 4’13’’.
The video present a state of boredom where the protagonist repeats the same meaningless task of pushing the lead out of the mechanical pencil, only to find that he cannot control the balance between the value of accepting the limitation and pushing beyond the limits.
Tedium from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
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Video
Pass The Time
Pass The Time, 2011. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 14’08’’.
Images of past and images of present are juxtaposed to each other like virtuality and actuality, documenting and staging, acting for a camera and mundane activity. The 70’s architecture of anticipation of the future meets present in a figure of a video camera.
Pass The Time from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
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Video
Amnesiac
Amnesiac, 2012. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 2’37’’.
A video camera is recording a slide projector in action.
Amnesiac from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
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Video
Electronic Performers
Electronic Performers, 2013. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 5’26’’.
The camera is recording a highway filled with cars. The lens is put on blur effect, transforming these beast of engines into playful, circular, colorful mixed lights.
Electronic Performers from Paul Hage Boutros on Vimeo.
Work Description
Video
Some People Wander By Mistake
Some People Wander By Mistake, 2013. Video, format 16:9, length of video: 2’29’’.
The video shows the setting of an installation in a museum. A person enters the rooms and start making very minor changes. The repetitive action of him displacing the bench questions his real role in the installation space.
Work Description
Video
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