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Death in Venice

When Todd McMillan starts taking a video, it’s like “punching in at work”, he says. “I find myself actively seeing and actively enduring time.”

Early in his career in the 2000s, he made video works that circled endurance, time, futility, melancholy and the sublime. He stood on a clifftop for the timelapse video work , 2004, and filmed an attempt to swim the English Channel for , 2009. He also recorded footage of the shy albatross off the coast of

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