Chrome

Esther Urlus | Netherlands | 2013 | 8' |

| IFFR 2014

It is a strange illusion: the images are filmed on black-and-white emulsion but we see colour. This is Autochrome, an early experiment with film colouring by the Lumières that combines particles of coloured potato starch, glass plates and black-and-white emulsion. The result? Colours that go beyond nature. See also the compilation programmes Silver and Artist Present.

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