Turbo

http://www.embassygallery.org/exhibitions/turbo/

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Ed Ruscha

Curtain.mov

Visibility

In the cinema the image we see on the screen has also passed through the stage of a written text, has then been "visualized" in the mind of the director, then physically reconstructed on the set, and finally fixed in the frames of the film itself. A film is therefore the outcome of a succession of phases, both material and otherwise, in the course of which the images acquire form. During this process, the "mental cinema" of the imagination has a function no less important than that of the actual creation of the sequences as they will be recorded y the camera and then put together on the moviola. This mental cinema is always at work in each one of us, and it always has been, even before the invention of the cinema. Nor does it ever stop projecting images before our mind's eye.

...What will be the future of the individual imagination in what is usually called the "civilization of the image"? Will the power of evoking images of things that are not there continue to develop in a human race increasingly inundated by a flood of prefabricated images? At one time the visual memory of an individual was limited to the heritage of his direct experiences and to a restricted repertory of image reflected in culture. The possibility of giving form to personal myths arose from the way in which the fragments of this memory came together in unexpected and evocative combinations. We are bombarded today by such a quantity of images that we can no longer distinguish direct experience from what we have seen for a few second on television. The memory is littered with bits and pieces of images, like a rubbish dump, and it is more and more unlikely that any one form among so many will succeed in standing out.

Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Visibility
1985

remake

Mark Leckey on his top 10 most influential films

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/mark_leckey/
"I have a theory that Titanic is actually a science fiction film... The character played by Leonardo DiCaprio is a time traveller from 1998; while all of the other actors are very stiff and Edwardian, he just plays himself, a contemporary Californian. The ship is like the industrial age sailing through history. It’s a film made almost entirely with digital technology and I think technology is one of the big ideas in the film – how the real can now be manipulated and moulded into whatever we desire."

More Alexander Gutke

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Universal - reinstalled

Fibre Optic

Remake

Recreation
Repetition
The whereabouts of images.

The remake.

Trailer (Matrix Reloaded)

Matrix Reloaded 35mm trailer reel cut into approx. 2000 35mm slides.

81 slides selected each time to be played through a Kodak Carousel S-AV 2010 slide projector.

Slide archive on display, lit by studio lamp.

Notes:

Testing facility.

Slides still in cases placed on white formica topped table - find alternative solution.

Projected image to be bigger.

6:00

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Alexander Gutke

Exploded View, Kodak carousel slide projector, 81 slides, stand, timer, 55 mm lens, 2005

Singularity, 2010, 16mm negative film, loop system, projector, variable dimension

Guthrie Lonergan's Groundhog Day

Green screen and THE clock.
Also Guthrie Lonergan's Groundhog Day here.

Metropolis

Seeing the bits you aren't meant to.
Demystification of iconic images.
The past pretending to be the future.