Joost Rekveld

Overview of films

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  #43.6

  Influenced by the work of logician G. Spencer Brown, whose book Laws of Form is a wonderful account of a new kind of logic.

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  #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 emuls

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  #5

  Through images made by using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials, #5 can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light.

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  #11, Marey <-> Moiré

  Featuring images generated by revisiting the chronophotographic techniques of Étienne-Jules Marey, this film deals with the discontinui

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  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 em

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  #37

  #37 was inspired by the work of James Whitney and in some ways is a tribute to his abstract animated film Lapis (1966). 

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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.

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  #67

  A homage to the videos Reminiscence and Telc by Steina and Woody Vasulka, both from 1974.

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  #23.2, Book of Mirrors

  Inspired by concepts found in medieval and Renaissance optics, #23.2, Book of Mirrors was made with a set-up in which elementary optical principles

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  #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 th

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