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Omnipotent Glow

A short experimental film compiling natural, human-made disasters, found footage of bombings, and self-made video of everyday life around Wichita, Kansas. The video is coupled with text-to-speech machine poetry about the end of the world generated from a prompt by Tonya Foster in my class at Ithaca College's Image Text Ithaca MFA Program. The title of this course was Writing for the End of Worlds. Our final assignment was to create a video poem. Omnipotent Glow is a result of that class as well as a result of the state of the world in 2020 at the height of COVID 19, wildfires, bombings, and other atrocities.

In many ways, this video is almost a letter from the future and from the perspective of maybe an artificial intelligence helping humans remember what has happened to their world.

  • Dale Small
    Director
  • Dale Small
    Writer
  • Dale Small
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Student, Web / New Media
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 5 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 4, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Google Pixel 3A, Found footage
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Image Text Ithaca
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • BLACK RAINBOW COLLECTIVE - "MOVIE MACHINE - VIDEO ART SHOW"
    Wichita, Kansas
    United States
    April 1, 2022
  • 2022 Tallgrass Film Festival : OFFICIAL SELECTION
    Wichita
    United States
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Dale Small

Dale Small is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, photographer, and organizer based in Wichita, Kansas.

At the intersection of design, photography, writing, and new media, my work confronts issues regarding misinformation, power, and privilege by emphasizing the importance of identity, memory, and representation. By connecting image, memory, and dreams I exploit new media practices by generating poor images for poor people. I explore personal family history, secrets, trauma, and the inheritance of these things. Outlining these acts of remembering and forgetting as a point to address the inaccessibility of what it means to call a place home.

In 2019, they graduated from Wichita State University with a BA in Art History focused on new media, public art, and social practice. Dale’s work has been exhibited at the 13th Havana Biennial and 12th Gwangju Biennale as part of the offline digital exhibition !!!Sección ARTE: El Paquete Semanal.

I am currently pursuing an MFA with Image Text Ithaca and I work for the Envision Arts Gallery.

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