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Ophelia 2011 video-installation The images are projected on six blocks, made of transparent paraffin. Each block has a different thickness, a natural fade out and increasing blurriness arises. video installation by Wilfried Pulinckx soundscape composed by Willem Sannen duration: 6min.20sec. 2011 |
Ophelia is strongly influenced by my graphic education. In Brussels (Belgium, at the Academic for Fine Arts of Anderlecht), I teach different printmaking techniques. Inherent in the printing process is the aspect of layering. How do different layers interact with each other? When I work with moving images I often use my experiences, these ‘knowledge’ of the printmaking process. How might changes in color, texture, layer rendering - blend modes, placement etc. affect the image and its meaning? Even the decision about the bottom layer -upon which to project- impact the idea in a crucial way.
For Ophelia, I worked intensively together with sounddesigner Willem Sannen. We both love image and sound for its materiality and believe they can explore for its own beauty. Like a painter paint, like a draftsman can draw…, we do not feel limited to the visual reality in front of the camera-objective, and set ourselves free to insert a more abstract reality.
My video-installations reflects also a search for the physical presence of the projected image. And this to a certain space, the subject of the experimental film, and the materials from which the installation is made; and how it (re-)defines space and our perceptions and experiences with moving images.
For Ophelia, I worked intensively together with sounddesigner Willem Sannen. We both love image and sound for its materiality and believe they can explore for its own beauty. Like a painter paint, like a draftsman can draw…, we do not feel limited to the visual reality in front of the camera-objective, and set ourselves free to insert a more abstract reality.
My video-installations reflects also a search for the physical presence of the projected image. And this to a certain space, the subject of the experimental film, and the materials from which the installation is made; and how it (re-)defines space and our perceptions and experiences with moving images.