IFFR 2017

Joost Rekveld

Featuring images generated by revisiting the chronophotographic techniques of Étienne-Jules Marey, this film deals with the discontinuity that lies at the heart of the film medium.

Deep Focus

#11, Marey <-> Moiré

Hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day, linking this to how film as a medium captures and radiates light.

Inspired by concepts found in medieval and Renaissance optics, #23.2, Book of Mirrors was made with a set-up in which elementary optical principles are used to generate images.

#23.2, Book of Mirrors

Images for this work were created by recording the movements of a tiny light source with extremely long exposure times, drawing traces on the emulsion of the film.

#37 was inspired by the work of James Whitney and in some ways is a tribute to his abstract animated film Lapis (1966).

Influenced by the work of logician G. Spencer Brown, whose book Laws of Form is a wonderful account of a new kind of logic.

#43.6

Through images made by using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials, #5 can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light.

A homage to the videos Reminiscence and Telc by Steina and Woody Vasulka, both from 1974.

As an articulation of the old idea that colours arise from the clash between light and dark, this film presents a gradual change from black to white.

A short study for the optical printer, based on found footage of fire, on coloured light from the printer and photochemical manipulations of the emulsion.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Joost Rekveld

In 'Joost Rekveld'

#11, Marey <-> Moiré

#2

#23.2, Book of Mirrors

#3

#37

#43.6

#5

#67

#7

VRFLM