Until The Darkness Goes
Expanded Film Performance
2024, Netherlands, 6x16mm projectors, color, sound, 30 min.

A ‘tonal’ 16mm film performance, a sonorous poem of twilight, indistinctness and suggestiveness, I’m trying to make visible the darkness of a depressed mind. The suffering of an adolescent, my daughter. Colors and mood inspired by the famous and unique photograph ‘The Pond – Moonlight’ by Steichen (1904) and the Nocturne paintings by Whistler (1870).

The work consists of several short 16mm film loops, grouped into different sequences. Each group consists of loops with similar, but not the same, film scenes in slightly different lengths. When played simultaneously, both overlapping side by side, a phase shift occurs. The phrases gradually shift apart, creating a slight echo as each loop plays a little behind the other. Over time the difference in length creates a chaos in movement on the screen, after which the phrases eventually return, back through doubling, echo, and unison. Sound in this performance is created by optical tracks printed on the film. Through the looping in the 16mm film projector and the possibility to turn on the image and the sound track separately; a soundscape will be created simultaneously with the projected image.

Part of the SPECTRAL Member Residency Program 2024