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Titel
Joost Rekveld [NAS] : #7
Auteur
Joost Rekveld
Jaar van uitgave
1996
Pagina's
32 min.
Materiaal
NAS
Elektronisch document
#7 was made by stamping paint onto transparent film and using the result of this as a negative. All movements in the film are caused by the interference of the stamped grid patterns and the perforation of the film material. Working on the filmstrip directly is interesting because of its simplicity and because of the fact that the traditional perspective inherent in the optical system of the camera becomes irrelevant. Illusion of depth occurs because of the difference in size of particles of paint, illusion of movement occurs when these particles are in some way equally spaced on the film. The colors of #7 are based on the opposition of pigment and light. The color model of theoretician Harald Küppers reduces this opposition to a unity at a deeper level in our perceptual system. I used his color model to structure a slow evolution from black to white. This is an elaboration of an old idea, articulated by Aristotle, among others, that colors are located in the shadow between light and dark. When stamping grid patterns onto film the content of every film frame is in part determined by chance. In contrast with this, all parameters that allow for control are composed in an elaborate score. The time structure is built up from the separate film frame to 28 sections that group into five larger parts. Each of these sections has its own color scheme and its own choice from the 17 grid patterns used. 16mm, silent, color, 32 min.