ACFNY SUPPORTED l VIKTORIA SCHMID AT MONO NO AWARE XI FESTIVAL

Austrian visual artist and filmmaker Viktoria Schmid’s installation is shown at the MONO XI FESTIVAL in Brooklyn. Her work will be featured during the sessions “PROGRAM I – SPECTRAL UNITY” on Friday, December 7 and “PROGRAM II – UNDER THE CLOAK OF DARKNESS” on Saturday, December 8.

Schmid’s installation involves looking back to the early pioneers of photochemical processes in order to reimagine and reinvent them in the present. The color film was exposed three times, each time through a different filter in the primary colors red, green, and blue. The different temporal stages of a fireplace thus appear in unnatural, colorful colors. The duration of the burning fire is condensed into another–into the temporal dimension of the film loop. The size of the rear projection screen (4“ width) defies the maxim/dictum of the cinema dispositif–the largest projection possible. Furthermore, the projection can be viewed through a diffraction sheet, which continues the splitting of the light into red, green, and blue. The single-projection and installation is yet another work in Schmid’s research into the early color film process and an exploration of the possibilities of a film installation in reference to the architecture of cinema.

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