experimental 6″20 film
(40 seconds ÷ 10 seconds) x4 – shown at ‘International Concrete’
Curated by Judith Duquemin, Barcelona, 2017
A 40 second segment of footage is turned into a loop of itself by reintroducing the starting point of the segment 4 times at 10 second intervals in superimposed layers over the top of the previous sequence. Thus the last sequence starts when the first sequence finishes, with the intermediate layers playing out in between. The 40th second is freeze framed and carries on for 10 seconds at the end of the segment.
It explores the notion of time expressed as a continuing series of moments, inherent to the medium of film.
The 40th second is an arbitrary moment or point in time towards which all the previous moments have been moving. All the moments are underscored by the presence of the 40th second which gradually becomes increasingly visible as the successive layers play out and disappear from the staggered sequence.