Tammy Marie’s Optra Field–works (at the moment six in total) are elegant, dichromatic time-based drawings from a series that explore the propinquity between space, time, movement, perception and opposites, somewhat reminiscent of the painted works Sol Lewitt and Agnes Martin, but purely conceived via electronic media.
Also in this combined programme
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Sinus Aestum
The title refers to the name of a lunar sea. Accordingly, this piece is comprised of arcs, or waves, moving through unstable states. -
The Life Size Zoetrope
The celebratory life story of one man, from the celebration of creativity to its eventual loneliness, regret and repetition. -
Flat Earth
A ‘desktop documentary’ which uses satellite imagery found online and voices of bloggers to re-establish what distances between people mean. -
Staubkaskade
Fractals provide the mathematical tool set to describe complex structures. Dust is the mathematical description for a set of non-connected points. -
Energy Shifts
This animation represents a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations. -
Three Blueprints (Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta)
266144 photos are extremely compressed in clusters again and again to almost unimaginable nano-dimensions; then filtered to their last essence. -
Bigger than Big
How big is big? This spectacular film takes us on a journey from the Moon’s surface to the far reaches of the visible universe. -
Powers of Ten
This short documentary film depicts the relative scale of the Universe. A camera reproduces in equal steps the picture of a couple during a picknick. -
Land of Cockaigne
In one continuous camera movement, Reupke presents a god’s eye view of the Sussex Downs, punctuated with choreographed incidents of human activity. -
Electron Jumps
An updated visualisation of a hydrogen atom’s single electron undergoing energy transformations. -
Iris Out
Composed of single frames from sequences of expanding or contracting irises, this video was reformatted for different aspect ratios.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
