Screen Kiss SerieS

16mm and standard 8mm film (2011).

Lipstick cherry all over the lens and she’s falling…

Screen Kiss Series extends ideas from my expanded cinema performance Screen Kiss, and explores how the female body is screened (both concealed and revealed) in film. Inspired in part by 1940s film noir: the female star has a glowing radiance about her, produced by placing a translucent barrier (gauze, vaseline) between the body and the lens.

The focus in the film gradually shifts from the face to the messy, visceral imprints of the lips – the means by which this radiance is achieved. Hand-processing and photo-chemical manipulation (solarisation) explode the image further, breaking down the screen kiss so that it cannot be easily contained within the frame.

Screenings:

2013: Screen Kiss Series on tour in the One Hundred Foot II artist film programme [16mm film: screening]