My Videos
"Yoel Meranda indulges a fascination with color in his extraordinary abstraction océanéant : fields of translucent reds gather upon themselves until they seem to congeal into something with mass, weight, and texture."
- Fred Camper on June 11, 2009 (click here to read the whole article)
"Two abstract videos by Yoel Meranda play with horizons and perspective and digital grain and the limits of computer color respectively."
- Josh Mabe (on océanéant and tiempo prudente)
You can download my full videography here. Everything I made that I consider any worth seeing is included, with information on duration, sound, format and year. You might have to zoom in a bit to see things.
I've been uploading some of my videos to Vimeo. These are usually things I shot with my cell phone and edited on Quick Time. You can see them by clicking here.
tiempo prudente and océanéant were screened in Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival 2009
océanéant will be screened in Abstracta 2009
il mio viaggio in italia is a 38-minutes video-diary of my trip to Italy in the Summer 2007. Shot on the Fiumicino Airport, Roma, Siena, Chianti, Lucca, Pisa and San Gimignano. Always synch-sound and chronologically ordered. You can see a small part of it here.
düzgören çıkmazı and tompkins square park were screened in !f Istanbul Film Festival 2008Other than il mio viaggio in italia, I made fifteen videos after I moved back to Istanbul in April 2006. You can see some of them on YouTube (by clicking here) but they ALL depend heavily on pixellation and on video artifacts so the best ways to see them are mini-DV or DVD. I would be more than happy to send a DVD compilation if you're curious.
The titles are (in chronological order): on my way to boston; august 16th; september 1st; september 4th; october 12th; emirgan park; vauxhall bridge; düzgören çıkmazı (english title: dead-end for straightseers); tompkins square park; rainbow-wall; artifacts; time runs; Dirsek Koyu, Hisarönü; camden rust; kaori.
Below are three videos I made in September 2005, all around one minute. If you have any comments please let me know...
window (Silent, Quicktime, 10.6 MB)
howl (Sound, Quicktime, 7.6 MB)
stairs (Silent, Quicktime, 13.8 MB)
Screened in Lucca Film Festival 2007snow in new york consists of seven videos edited on August 2005. The footage for the videos was shot during Michael Snow's lecture at Eyebeam, New York, in May 2005. The series was my first attempt at "experimental editing" and I had no idea how the images would appear on the big screen or TV so I edited all of it based on the image that was on the LCD screen of my Canon Optura Xi camera. I still like it best, by far, as a mini-DV seen on that small LCD screen. Some of the videos completely depend on the interlacing effects so they do not survive at all on the computer monitor. If you're curious, I'll be more than happy to send you a mini-DV tape. The seven titles included in snow in new york are: mouthful, untitled, untitled 2, digital ways of doing, color correction, I_MIT, and michael's nose. Here are a few of those:
untitled 2 (Silent, Quicktime, 7.8 MB)
digital ways of doing (Sound, Quicktime, 3.6 MB)
color correction (Sound, Quicktime, 5.7 MB)
I_MIT (Silent, Quicktime, 6.6 MB)
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