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These are the different sequences of footage composed in Final Cut Pro. The average number of photographs per footage is 800, the frame rate is 8fps.
Dark Canal Water
Blue Canal Water
Close-up Reflection of gasometer
Reflection of gasometers
The next one is a composite of two sequences overlayed, as I said in the symposium, to mirror the process used on the valve images where I merged two different exposures I am exploring the merging of two different footages into one. This presents to the viewer a double set of information of exactly the same location captured at different times, bringing the concept of time capture closer to mind.
The sequence shown below is just the basis for the final piece where the pace of the sequence will slow down at random intervals reminding us of the static nature of the footage and bringing back the pensive quality of photography.
The following are two rough sketches for the proposed installation of the screens that will show the final footage. The idea is to show the same footage on three screens sequentially so the water movement is emphasized, traveling from one screen to the next one (past-present-future), showing the time line and narrative by using the vertical spatial display. I think that the formalism of this display ties in with the formality of the valve typology displayed on a frame. It makes a connection in between the two pieces of work strengthening their viewing context.
Front view
Back view
A previous idea was to have it in a low rectangular box, with the monitors looking up, simulating the way I took the footage of the water.
and this was a former idea of having 3 plasma screens on a corner set, it has an inclusive feeling but it is very different from the way in which I am displaying my valve piece, if I were to have a room just for the displaying of this piece, this shape could have been a good proposal but with large x large scale screens instead.
Canal water-DV.( First attempt that has made me think about changing my method to lapse photography).
As part of my project I am including a piece of moving image made out of time lapse photography. I am not very happy with the outcome of the above video, which was filmed with a DV camera. It is a good starting point but I think that time lapse photography as an output for my methodology may provide a closer result to what I intend to portray and it will be more coherent with the rest of my project.
As well as documenting the machines and the spaces where the machines are housed I wanted to make a connection not only to the outside but also to an element with which all these inventions/technological advances depend upon: water. My project in this way will document three different elements, looking from the inside out. The valves are an essential artifact for the machine to function, they are a direct referent to the human/machine relationship and dependency. The architectural spaces are a testimony to the people that worked there and the engineers that constructed them. The water unifies everything making a connection with environment and the vital force that made this new technology possible.
The way I want to represent the water is through moving image. I am exploring the possibility of making a lapse photography video which will provide continuity on my methodology, using photography as the base of my practice and allowing me to continue developing my skills on that discipline. It will also provide a better quality image than standard digital video footage and will allow me to work with a bit more flexibility in post production (work yet to be done). I am considering presenting this work as a masked projection that fits into a light-box. The concept would be to have three light boxes, the two on the sides will have a still photographic images and the one in the center will have the projected moving image.
By using moving image constructed out of photographic stills I am also making a reference to the old relationship that exists in between photography and film. If we look at film, in a traditional sense, we see that it was composed out of still images that would go one on top of another constructing continuity and creating movement. Lapse photography allows the subversion of real time to a different pace, it creates a juxtaposition of technologies, photography representing a pensive moment and film representing the present. It also touches the dichotomy of configuration/de-configuration. Photographs when showed one after the other give us the illusion of motion whilst presenting individually captured moments, static images that allow us to contemplate the subtleties of an element in motion.
There is an interesting quote from Anton Bragaglia (1913), Italian futurist photographer who developed Fotodinamismo:
“We are not interested in the precise reconstruction of movement, which has already been broken up and analysed. We are involved only in the area of movement which produces sensation”.
Anton Giulio Bragaglia, Uomo che suona il contrabbasso
Anton Bragaglia used multiple exposure photography to capture motion. The intention of capturing movement with his experimental photography is related to lapse photography although in its base it is quite a different methodology. Personally I find this quote interesting because it talks about the vibration and the essence of a movement captured in the surface of the photograph, these qualities can also be applied to lapse photography where movement is explored and meditated, sometimes giving it a hypnotic quality that allows the triggering of our memory function.
