Sequences and Interruptions

SEQUENCE XIII (16mm, colour, silent, 2’, 2008) The film is a complete record, in two versions, of a painting by Angela Allen. The cellular structure of the painting is mapped onto the cellular form of the film-strip. INTERRUPTION VII (16mm, colour, silent,14’ 2008) The film is made from a drawing by the artist Angela Allen. I used a combination of single frame shooting combined with in-camera dissolves and other strategies to create the work, which analyses and reconstructs parts of the original drawing. The film’s making processes aim to be in accordance with the generative principles by which the pictures were made. Key to this is that the film be true to the strategy and problematics resulting in the drawings’ final form, while at the same time rendering them as time-based works. The films’ structures are dictated by those of its subject, in order that the films’ structures be not arbitrary or imposed. The work explores the interrelationship between the still image and motion effects induced by the filming of that image, specifically, kinetic phenomena spontaneously generated in the process of animating fragments of this medium sized drawing. Different filming rates (scales) interact with scalar elements of the drawing.