Her fascination with black space developed from her questioning, what happens within the black space, which is a totally fascinating to consider. She then began to describe how early films used ‘shutters’ to be played – these usually had 2 or 3 blades which would interrupt the film intermittently, with black space, resulting in the flickering effect which is apparent in early films. Film can be found here – īual expressed that she has a passion for early film, their processes and how the projectors worked, and also has an interest in black space. This timeline of interchanging images is then played, giving the effect that the candle is flickering and even though it takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the image, this is a really clever technique that she uses. She has looped a sequence of black space, then the photo, then black space, and so on, shown at 1/25 th of a second. Movement is an aspect Bual likes to capture in her works-which lead onto her showing the first piece she created, ‘Flicker’ – a 20 second video of a candle made from just one photo. She uses image as her subject matter in her works and is credited on the ‘simplicity and elegance’ of her works (comment by chair of lecture) (Savinder Bual during her lecture – presenting her wild west inspired piece “Myriorama” – photo my own, taken on iPhone 4)īual began the lecture by presenting one of the earliest films made and that was the first screening in Britain – It was a static film of waves in the sea, a lot of movement was in this film. Savinder Bual is foremost, a film based artist from the UK.
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