Ola Pehrson March 9, 2007

Ola Pehrson's 'Hunt for the Unabomber (2005)' is a recreation of a documentary film on the notorious American terrorist, Ted Kaczynski. Though the subject is dark, the video's black-and-white images have an eerie, ethereal quality of their own: one slowly realizes that the filmed scenes are not in fact real, but rather created entirely of small maquettes made of polystyrene, cardboard, string, and other odds and ends. These false documents, some similar to the originals, others not, take on a truth of their own.