In Between

In Between is an expanded cinema installation, exhibiting at Rubenstein Art Center, Durham, NC, USA, in 2023. It visualizes the “absence” and “discontinuity” in the motion picture. It is set in a film studio and built with film production equipment, including multiple C stands and light control flags. Mirrors are also used to increase the depth of the space. This one-channel silent video is an excerpt from my film, SEEN, which discusses how motion picture and photography work on displaced memories. The video from the projector is refracted by prisms. Through refraction and reflection, the video is broken into pieces, and scattered over the space. The frame of the moving image is dissolved. The equipment that creates the image becomes the screen of the image. The continuity of moving image is interrupted. The audiences are invited to walk into this light maze, collect, organize images in their minds, and make meaning of them. The original montage of time turns into the montage of space.
24 frames per second: motion picture is a half vision. The image we see and the image we miss. The light we capture and the light we neglect. This installation visualizes what is left in between.