Shards of emulsion, layered and structured onto clear 35mm film. Shadow Trap was conceived as a companion piece to the live film performance Light Trap, where actions are taken to remove all emulsion from completely developed black film loops. Shadow Trap operates in reverse – a film is created by the application of film emulsion ‘dust’ to a clear base.
Also in this combined programme
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NKS Feed-Back
This is the simplest and at the same time most complex performance one might think of. Pascal Baes, Ai Suzuki and real visual poetry. -
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La scène du WC
Excerpt from a documentary on urban speculation in Brussels. We see labourers knocking down a house, but someone is still living behind that wall! -
Cricketant – Nordur
Excerpt from a video currently being made. The drone ambient music is by the Serbian band The Cricketant. -
Shot Film
A shotgun is aimed at filmstrips. Images and sound are created through the destructive force and spread of the shot. Images as wounds: entry and… -
Ateliers urbains
Fragments selected from a video shot around Flagey Square, an area whose recent renovation has resuscitated many polemics. -
The Severe Illness of Men
A man, partly bandaged, wanders through an industrial landscape. His wandering is interwoven with excerpts from science films and from the film Chapae -
Happiness the Movie
Why do we have to be happy? Happiness the Movie takes us through the secrets of psycho programming and human behaviour management. -
An Encounter
In 2009 in Croatia, students joined farmers in a demonstration for the first time. Although major media were present, this is the only video which… -
Incidence Room
Single frame bursts of material divided into four themes: city, window, mountains and people. A visual punctuation of time coordinated with a soundsca
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2007
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
