UNPROJECTABLE (2022)

Joanna Byrne, 8 seconds [16mm film, scanned to digital video].
A piece of microcinema composed entirely of fragments of 16mm film cut from newsreels, documentary, drama and propaganda films from the 1940s-1990s. Each frame has been individually tape-spliced to the next to form a hand-made montage or patchwork of ‘found’ images. As a result of the number of physical cuts and splices in the celluloid filmstrip, this Frankenstein's monster cannot be brought to life through the beam of a 16mm projector. Instead, the filmstrip has been resuscitated via pixels: meticulously scanned frame by frame, it is now re-animated in a digital afterlife.

exhibition:

The Cutting Table, curated by Sarah Eyre, 27 April – 5 July 2023, Leeds Arts University [installation, group exhibition] | 2023

featured in:

SoAnyway Issue 12, Leeds/London: UK | 2022

Millennium Film Journal, New York | 2022