Nosrat Nosratian (b. 1980 in Tehran, lives in New York), Fall, 2009. Stereo, 6:56
In his videos, Nosrat Nosratian engages duration — of the everyday and that of existence — via a time element of a moving image, often in a non-narrative or repetitive sequences, such as channel surfing in front of a TV, or accumulations of abstract or natural elements into clusters. If spectator chooses to submit her time to the video duration, this suspended narrative unravels in a sudden coda — an intervention of a decisive, telling moment into a non-descript sequence of time, a blissful fall…