Fateless
Resonance DVD review, issue #52, 2007

Two abstract video pieces for your next freakout, soundtracked with the shiny harmonic drone of Australian electronic composers Martin Ng and Oren Ambarchi. Vigilance lulls one into boredom for endless minutes with vibrator hum and vintage-1983 video game graphics. Don’t worry, there’s an ambush ahead, as random sniper bursts of sound/light liven up the piece and send it careening off into more interesting places. 8 Seconds of Weightlessness follows with a similar simplicity, but this time the images rivet themselves into the retina. A palpable urgency suggests that communication is the goal, that we’ve intercepted some kind of indecipherable extraterrestrial code. Is it a message of goodwill or aggression? Fred Beldin