André 3000 Explains His Art — vulture.com

Which explains how Mr. Benjamin was drawn into the project in the first place: working with two of SCAD's most illustrious graduates, filmmaker Greg Brunkalla and artist Jimmy O'Neal. The latter's contribution, enormous and slightly abstracted floral images, was set off by Brunkalla's video triptych Trumpets, near-static cinematic portraits subtitled with elliptical phrases. The director, best known for his Screen Tests interview series for the New York Times, seemed happy to come aboard with his alma mater's latest initiative, coinciding happily as it did with his own ambitions. “You know, it’s gotta kind of line up with what I want to do,” said Brunkalla, who's been casting around to do more art-world-oriented work.

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