Road to Mount Weather
2006
3-channel moving image projection
15 minutes
Select here for Evans' current exhibition at The Library Project
From the Exhibition Catalogue:
Cliff Evans’ fifteen minute film is based on Mount Weather, a top-secret government installation in Bluemont, VA, fifty-five miles northwest of Washington, DC. This complex houses above-ground operations and training facilities for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is rumored to contain an underground city designed to house key components of the American government, military personnel, and a predetermined civilian population in case of nuclear warfare or some other national calamity. In Evans’ film, The Road to Mount Weather, he uses the Internet to download imagery that he appropriates and reanimates into a cinematic accounts of ecstasy, catastrophe, and promise. The ensemble of political figures, pop icons, porno stars, mega churches, sports arenas, and wasted landscapes are all found images downloaded from the Internet, thus Evans' work addresses how our own wants and desires, exemplified within the superficiality of contemporary society, may well be the cause of our own demise.
From the Exhibition Catalogue:
Cliff Evans’ fifteen minute film is based on Mount Weather, a top-secret government installation in Bluemont, VA, fifty-five miles northwest of Washington, DC. This complex houses above-ground operations and training facilities for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is rumored to contain an underground city designed to house key components of the American government, military personnel, and a predetermined civilian population in case of nuclear warfare or some other national calamity. In Evans’ film, The Road to Mount Weather, he uses the Internet to download imagery that he appropriates and reanimates into a cinematic accounts of ecstasy, catastrophe, and promise. The ensemble of political figures, pop icons, porno stars, mega churches, sports arenas, and wasted landscapes are all found images downloaded from the Internet, thus Evans' work addresses how our own wants and desires, exemplified within the superficiality of contemporary society, may well be the cause of our own demise.
