Black Drop
In 2012, Venus’s last transit of the sun was recorded on celluloid (the next will occur in 2117). Black Drop tracks the development of a device designed to counter human error in timing the crucial moments of Venus’s contact, which inspired Janssen’s photographic revolver, Marey’s chronophotographic gun and the Lumière brothers’ cinematograph.
Also in this combined programme
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Empire
Solomon needed only machinima images from the Grand Theft Auto series for his radical and relatively concise remake of Warhol’s classic eight-hour-lon
Film details
- Countries of production
- Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2012
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 28'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
