​INSTANT CINEMA is a series of one-minute videos fantasizing my experiences on the streets of New York as scenes in a movie.
In order to better distinguish between "active" and "passive," watching, I try to control what I watch. Starting from the same street that I pass by every day, I deliberately ask myself to notice the smoke emerging from a manhole cover or to listen to the homeless man on the street corner who is constantly shaking a bucket full of loose change and asking passersby for money.

I fantasize about these scenes in the 16:9 ratio frame from film and place that frame in these spaces around New York. The 16:9 frame is represented by bright red tape physically placed over a phone booth, a bench in a subway station, the ground at a park, etc. I create a new fantasized scene within the red frame that exists inside the larger reality-based frame.