Film installation
2 films, 16mm, transferred from Super-8-films,
color, silent, synchronous, adjoined projection next to each other
22 sec (loop)
Edition 1/10 + 2 A. P.
Two Super 8mm movie cameras with identical zoom lenses are placed
with the viewfinder flush to each of my eyes. Each of the cameras’ images
are focused on the sun somewhat obscured by a cloudy sky. The image
of each camera corresponds to the double retinal images of the right
and left eyes. Filming begins with both cameras simultaneously. Initially,
the images synchronously are extreme close-up views, maximum disparity
between the right and the left images being caused as they “halve”
the sun. The two zoom lenses open their respective fields of view at the
same rate until reaching their fullest extend. Both images diminish in
size to a “distance.” In viewing, the films made by the two cameras are simultaneously projected as a split-screen-image. (Dan Graham)
