THE DISTANCE BETWEEN HERE AND THERE

by Christina BATTLE

2005 / 16 mm / coul / son / 7' 50

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2010 digitization plan. An excerpt is available online. The full movie is viewable in our documentation center.

traveling through an invented landscape…the space between here and there.

An abstract film made by applying colour tape directly onto emulsion and exposing it to light. The film presents colour fields in motion, though for the most part the ground is white like a gessoed canvas, and filled with a moving curtain of dust and hair and spots. In order to relieve the regularity (the tyranny?) of the projector’s 24 frame per second pulse, freeze frames are introduced, showing up and isolating a jagged crimson edge, an orange wall with its soft cracks, a yellow corner. After isolating, and setting apart colours in the film’s opening movement, they are brought together in a careening, flickering collage in the film’s second minute. Anticipating and then re-blending the afterimages of these ragged colour fields, the palette slowly darkens as the layers accumulate, canceling out the brilliance of “pure” colours. A visceral, physical cinema making the eyeballs sweat. Hidden colour codes of the synapses firing: a new thought is being born, and a new movie to accompany it. [Mike Hoolboom, 2007]

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	16 mm 1 reel (76 meters)
original format	16 mm
speed	24 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	opt Stéréo
rental fee	36,00 €