Joost Rekveld: The Motors of Invention
Combined programme
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IFFR 2017
Many of Joost Rekveld’s early films find their inspiration in fundamental characteristics of the film apparatus. This programme provides an overview of the development of this strand in Rekveld’s work, with the films VRFLM and #7 as two very different explorations of the 16mm filmstrip. The films #3, #5 and finally #11, Marey <-> Moiré show the evolution in Rekveld’s reflection on how the medium of film deals with time. For these films he developed his own tools based on long exposures, scanning and chronophotography.
In this combined programme
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#2
Hommage to the way daylight changes colour during the course of the day, linking this to how film as a medium captures and radiates light. -
VRFLM
A short study for the optical printer, based on found footage of fire, on coloured light from the printer and photochemical manipulations of the emuls -
#3
Images for this work were created by recording the movements of a tiny light source with extremely long exposure times, drawing traces on the emulsion -
#7
Essentially a slow evolution from black to white, this film is an articulation of the old idea of Aristotle’s that colours arise from the clash between… -
#5
Through images made by using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials, #5 can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light. -
#11, Marey <-> Moiré
Featuring images generated by revisiting the chronophotographic techniques of Étienne-Jules Marey, this film deals with the discontinuity