Film Screening - Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life

My short film Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life will be screening this weekend 31st October – 1st November at:

OBLONG

Weekend Screenings

24 short films
31st October – 1st November

Two screenings per day
1st screening – 12pm-2pm
2nd screening- 3pm – 5pm

Oblong Gallery
69a Southgate Road
London N1 3JS

020 7354 8330
www.oblonggallery.com

Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life entwines the banality of a personal, everyday suburban train journey with the structural changes taking place to the urban environment around the Olympic site in East London. It is an experimental film that takes the analogue photograph as its source and transforms the still-ness of photography into the movement of film, in away attempting to mix structural film making with digital technology.

Olympic Changes originates from six medium-format photographic negatives; each celluloid negative digitally scanned and repeatedly divided to make in total 600 separate images – these individual images becoming the frames for the film. Movement is re-animated through digital video to reflect the motion present at the original moment of capture by the medium-format camera.

The work is also concerned with questioning the notion of truth and ‘document’ in relation to the photographic image. The notion of ‘truth’ is questioned through the layering of journeys and mixing of ‘modes of translation’ – what is defined here as the movement from experience to representation.

Excerpt: Olympic Changes: an inadequate document of life from Samuel Nightingale on Vimeo.