Man with Mirror
The film maker’s live interaction with his on-screen image projected onto a hand-held mirrored screen. The screen is white on one side and mirrored the other, and is used by the artist/performer to ‘catch’ the projected image, or reflect it around the cinema space. The film being projected shows the same actions taking place years earlier, in a sunlit landscape. Visual echoes are made between the live event and the recorded one, between the artist/performer and his former self. This performance can include directional sound aimed at the screen, its movements deflecting the sound around the space. The performance can also happen outside at night, whereupon those parts of the film not caught by the screen disappear in the dark.
Also in this combined programme
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Views from Home
Changing sunlight filmed in the maker’s apartment, with saxophone sounds from the neighbours as a soundtrack. -
Soundtrack
Shot taken from the window of a moving train, used as a basis for a fascinating optical soundtrack. -
Vowels & Consonants
A 16mm performance with six projectors, in which letters that are printed straight onto the film are present in both sound and image. -
Time Spirals
Film material is rolled up like a spiral and dipped sideways in developer so only half is developed. -
Cycles #3
A performance with two 16mm projectors in which spots stuck on the film function as basic material for hypnotic images and sound. -
Night Train
Time-lapse shortens train journey to two minutes, while the image also creates the optical soundtrack.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2006
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
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