Rizoma 0667 shows a man walking along a hard shoulder of a highway. He collects things from the ground and bushes on the edges. The digital zoom that brings him closer to us makes the image grainy, producing a kind of muddy, pixelated impressionism. The shot, first focused on the drifter, opens up as he comes closer, revealing the real distance between the camera and its object. The movement of the device shows the isolation of the man, stressed by his slow pace, in contrast with the fast rhythm of the traffic. The piece is a fragment of the VideoRizoma project, which seeks to examine the potential movement of the concept of rhizome, from the field of philosophy to that of video.
