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Bjorn Melhus is a media artist from Germany whose work centered on the issues brought on by mass media. With a background of Film and Video from Braunschweig School of Arts, he considered himself a film and video maker rather than a fine artist. Born in1966, a time when televisions have already entered most households, Melhus grew up watching American films and series which he now looks back at with fascination and contempt. In his works, Melhus was concerned with the relationship between the viewer and mass media and how mass media manipulates our emotions. It was common among many artists who were a part of the first TV generation to investigate the negative and controlling effects that televisions possessed. In most of his works he used recorded sounds from mass media and put it together, creating a rhythmic audio and juxtaposed it with surrealistic visuals. Melhus was known in his works to take on different personas to play out the roles in his videos. Repetition was used constantly throughout his works to be fully deconstructed and analyzed by the viewers. Certain cuts, arrangements, movements, color, etc were a critical part of the work and were all chosen purposefully by the artist. By utilizing precision editing and thinking critically of the message in the video, he was able to produce artistic and poetic-like works that provided a critical view on mass media and television culture.

Sources:

http://www.melhus.de/

http://www.shortfilm.de/en/shortfilmszene/filmmakers/bjoern-melhus.html

http://www.transmediale.de/bjorn-melhus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ0t96m-hQw

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