Erratic flashes of light spark across a flickering expanse of Lake Ontario. The image itself can’t be contained as light and debris spill outside the frame. The random alchemy of hand-processing techniques creates a landscape that transcends the observable, edging into the sublime. The ninth work in an ongoing series of poetic landscape films. “Gibraltar Point (transformed)” was created during a residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Shot on black and white 16mm film, hand-processed, then transferred digitally with an ambient sound design by Michelle Irving. Selected screenings: Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Montreal, QC, 2017); Antimatter Media Art (Victoria, BC, 2017);) Transient Visions: Festival of the Moving Image (Johnson City, NY, 2017); Festival Signes de Nuit (Paris, France, 2017)
Gibraltar Point (transformed)
- Film Maker
- McCann, Penny
- Year
- 2017
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 6
- Genre
- experimental, hand-processed, short
- Category
- art & artists, Canada, Earth, Ecology, environment, Landscape, Time + Space, Work by Women

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