24/24

"24/24" is a 0.45m/0.84m computer print. The print contains a strip of 35mm film with a total length of 24 seconds, cut into 24 parts of equal length. Each strip has the length of 24 frames, i.e. one second. The images in the frames are Super8 stills, representative for  24 still shots in the film. The stills tell a simple linear story, but here the frames are arranged vertically in each strip. Theoretically, this continuous 35mm film strip contains 24 still shots, each one second long, but if they were spliced together and put through a projector, because of their vertical arrangement, none of the 24 stills shots would be visible - only a flicker would be seen. One element, the red ball, begins to make its own way out of the confined frame. It suggests its own journey through the landscape of images, breaking through the boundaries and limitations of film's basic working principle. The connection between recording and projection. That the production of an image on the screen always means the loss of the individual frames that create it. The absent presence of the single frame. I found this particularly interesting in the context of film stills, because in order to create them, many identical frames have to pass through the projector, i.e. they have to be recorded. The fact that a film recording is always linear and so is the projection. This linearity means a lack of interactivity for the viewer. I was interested in creating the possibility of non-linearity within film, both as a recording medium and in the story of the film.