CLICK TO VIEW MULTIPLE SET UP AND INSTALLATION IMAGES:
The Glittering Walls of Almost Dawn
4x 16mm Projectors and Live Music (2019)
The Glittering Walls of Almost Dawn is a collaborative expanded-cinema performance with artist and musician Leanna Kaiser. The performers are in front of the audience and move freely behind a rear-projected screen. Over the course of about 30 minutes, a score of film and sound loops are performed. Images are refracted through glass prisms and convex lenses, while field recordings and musical accompaniment guides the images from one sequence to the next. The music is ethereal and dream-like with lots of reverb, delay and tonal shifts ranging from calm to noise-y. Over time, loops build and change as one performer responds to the other’s new addition to the score.
The imagery that is projected incorporates footage that has been generated two ways: on analogue-film using an optical printer as a tool for time-manipulation/layering and on video by using analogue video effects to distort and bend imagery. The combination of overlapping, abstracted images create a series of imagined landscapes. A viewer is taken on a disoriented journey through these worlds. Ultimately, this performance creates a space of visual and auditory exploration, as ghostly characters interact beyond their frame, their landscape and into another image.
San Diego Underground Film Festival Opening Night, San Diego, USA 2019