Mark Prendergast EYE FALL

EYE FALL is a dizzying meditation on the digital image from artist and filmmaker Mark Prendergast. Using a wide array of imaging tools and editing techniques, Prendergast deftly draws together a jumbled assemblage of video material and digital ephemera into nonlinear reflection on the world viewed through a small screen. It was made in a period where there were a whole lot of ideas and observations floating around, explains the artist, so this work isnt really about one thing in particular but its the end product of around 18 months of thinking about what it is to be a maker in the current visual, cultural climate. Cutting between footage of his friends, animals, children and objects, Prendergast crafts a kind of videographic free verse, a poetic response to everyday life mediated by digital media, for digital media. The initial starting point for the work was that I wanted to explore the feeling of being in free fall, continues Prendergast. I was feeling and still feel that in this contem