Midyear presentation setup pics

In the darkness, the installation does not matter too much. But when you take a photo of it with a flash it's obvious that things don't look too pretty. Let's just say the setup was harder than I initially anticipated and I didn't quite leave enough time to ensure everything worked according to plan.



The result was what I had hoped for though, and the image has a depth to it, kind of an illusionary television screen which is not simply 2 dimensional when being viewed up close, though appears flattened again when re-photographed (as below image). Instead of the proposed 18 sequential layers, I had to cut it down to only 6 layers, to enable enough light to shine through. Something I will work on.

3D-2D // Expand and Flatten space and time

Photograph comprised of 18 sequential stills. (about 6 seconds duration)

Plans

New Shoot

The setup:


So i hired a generator, got as many actors as I could and took a heap of photos with the spinshot and digital SLR. I've also documented it in video. The idea here was to allude to the battleship potempkin's 'odessa steps' sequence, which was a pivotal point in cinematic montage. It essentially deconstructs time, condensing an entire conflict into a 7 minute scene on the steps.

This moving image is made of 28 stills merging together:

Odessa from Emily Hlavac-Green on Vimeo.

Odessa

C O M I N G S O O N

Disillusions

As somewhat of a carry on from my pop-up diorama experiment, I've been using images printed on transparency to play with spacial dimensions and layering. The result (which isn't very well captured by the photos) is quite interesting, almost ethereal, illusionary or even holographic-looking . In a way Cinema may also be thought of as an optical illusion. Through the rapid linking of individual images, we see one continuous movement. Motion is never actual, just simulated.

with a camera flash: