Presented in its hand-cranked version, this dual slide-projection installation with a rotating disc pays tribute to the under-recognised women scientists of space stations. Archival photographs of women scientists, craters on the moon named after them and early 1900s photographic plates of stars examined by deaf astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt oscillate in concert with one another.
The other films shown within Blackout Installations
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Non-chronological History
Prapat Jiwarangsan IFFR 2019 0The history of Thai political events since 1932 is reshuffled out of chronological order in this installation with multiple slide projectors.
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Landscape Series #1
Nguyen Trinh Thi IFFR 2019 0A series of mysterious photographs of people pointing into Vietnamese landscapes becomes a commentary on news events in this slide installation.
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Space Station: Rainbow Ihnfinity
Cauleen Smith IFFR 2019 0A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
A nod to Sun Ra’s obsession with rainbows, this installation places living plants, theatrical furniture and a rainbow mural in an ‘arkestral’ arrangement.
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Mneme
Raha Raissnia IFFR 2019 0In Greek mythology, Mneme is memory personified. This installation is a projection onto a painting where textures are subtly combined.
- Filmmaker
- Aura Satz
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2014
- Medium
- 35mm
- Length
- 0’
- Language
- no dialogue
