16mm film-installation, 5 projectors, 5 screens, no sound, 1 minute film loops, B/W, ©2005
FIVE SCREENS is a series of installations using 16mm film loops showing moving black and white abstract linear compositions. The movement of black lines and white surfaces on five separate screens creates a visual choreography revealing ever-changing chance patterns.
I was wondering if I could create one panoramic landscape out of images taken at different moments. In other words, what happens if I put moving images that follow each other up in time next to each other in one space?
To avoid overlapping in the 3-dimensional depth of two photographed landscapes, I filmed five flat film screens positioned next to each other using a travelling 16mm-camera. In a first installation this travelling image was copied five times and projected using the same five projectors in a row which throw the moving image of the five passing screens onto the five fixed screens. (Brussels, 2005)
This installation was once more filmed using a travelling camera. I added a circular screen, copied this film again five times to set up a second installation. (Brussels, 2006)
To continue, one of these images was filmed again, this time in combination with the lines of a vertical grid and a moving spotlight to result in a third installation (Berlin, 2007). For a 'Almost Cinema' exhibition (Gent, 2007) I was asked to adapt the same installation for a more spacious room. And perhaps in this final set-up, I was indeed able to make that new physical space out of images taken in different times.
Les Bains Connective, 4x4, Brussels, 2005
De Markten, Brussels, 2006
4x4 Kunstforening,Tromsö, Norway, 2006
Kunstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin, 2007
Vooruit, Almost Cinema, Gent, 2007