In a world of media saturation the 2D image is validation.  Stoic screens leave us more connected to unnatural, flat celebrity faces than to our rarely seen next-door-neighbors.  We feel a power over the strange 2D world where we can “pause, rewind or fastfoward live TV,” that doesn't exist anywhere else in life.  Flickering ghost simulacra is our new longing.  This digital experience created here is as much a simulation of experience as the idea is a simulation of an ideal.

Bryant Dameron was born in White Stone, Virginia, USA in 1983.  He has exhibited work internationally and across the USA in film festivals, gallery exhibtions, and television.  Recent exhibitions include Videoholica 08 in Bulgaria, and 809 International New Image Art Festival in China. He graduated Virginia Tech in 2005 with a degree in Mass Media Communications, and in 2007 received a MFA degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.  He currently lives and works in Richmond Virginia.  In addition to film and video Bryant enjoys teaching, web-design, and turtle keeping.

Website:

Project October

Contact:

bryant@projectoctober.com

Exhibitions:

·  "Disconnect," Official Selection of the 2^nd ACE Film Festival, New York, NY. September 2008.

·  “Manifest,” Circuito  OFF, Venice International Short Film Festival, Venice, Italy, August, 2008.

·  Videoholica 08, Varna, Bulgaria, August 2008

·  The 809 International New Image Art Festival, Three Gorges, China, July 2008

·  Graduate Thesis Show (Group Show), Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, April 2007

·  THIS IS ALEX (Group Show), Founder’s Hall, Richmond, VA.  March 2007

·  “Reconnect,” Official Selection of the 4^th Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS. February 2007

·  “Undefined,” Premiere, Byrd Theatre, Richmond, VA.  October 2006

·  “Street: Long I Stood,”  “Best Short Film (College Student)” Lake2Sound Film Festival, Shoreline, WA. June 2006

·  “Street: Long I Stood,”  “Best Socially Relevant Fictional Film” Lake2Sound Film Festival, Shoreline, WA. June 2006

 · “Street: Long I Stood,” Honorable Mention, 2006 VCU Juried Film Festival, Grace Street Theatre, Richmond, VA. May 2006

·  “Street: Long I Stood,”  “Film of Distinction” at the 2006 Columbia Film Festival, New York, NY. April 2006

·  MFA First Year Show (Group Show), Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA. April 2006

·  “Street: Long I Stood,”  Aired on the Cable TV Program, America’s Best Student Shorts. March 2006

·  L3FTB3H1ND (Group Show & Online exhibition), Gallery 5, Richmond, VA. November 2005