Last Light of a Dying Star
running time: 22 min.
4 x 16mm; 3 x video; 1 x super 8mm
2008
description
A multi-projector meditation on the passage from film to video, from abstraction to representation, and from the technological wonder of space exploration to the banality of the digital snapshot. Originally made for an installation/performance in a planetarium at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, GA, the film attempts to recapture some of the excitement of the early days of space exploration and the utopian aspirations of expanded cinema. Made as an orchestration of a number of different elements, made and found: handmade cameraless film loops by Beebe and Jodie Mack; striking sequences of digital stills by Cassandra C. Jones; 16mm educational films about eclipses, asteroids, comets, and meteorites; and a super 8 print of the East German animated film "The Drunk Sun."
screenings
This film was first screened as part of MERGE VISUAL, a show at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Macon, Georgia in September 2008. In April 2009, it received its "flat wall" premiere at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Columbia, SC as part of the Indie Grits Film Festival.
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