“Chase the Sun” - Planet Funk (Chepertom Visual Remix)

For this videoclip of « Planet Funk - Chase the sun » I worked on footage of New York at different periods of time. To me this standing city represents the idea of chasing the sun through the dimensions of its skylines and horizons. I had the chance to visit New York 3 years ago and wanted to confront my videos with older footage restored by artificial intelligence. Corrupting these clean and flawless footages is a way to play with time as a material and revive the painterly aspect of another age.

Since my work is always gravitating around the notion of obsolescence I wanted to bring back the artifacts inside of the medium. Video technologies have evolved so quickly from its creation, replacing one innovation by another, this process has grown exponentially during the last decades. It’s in this particular context that I find it interesting as a videast to play with this wide range of textures coming from the past and now hybrid with the most recent AI development.