C'NT Programming
Pavitra Wickramasinghe
À bientôt
THE WORK
Stasis (video) - mountain
Length: 00:02:37:15
2005
The process of creation and gaining mastery of the medium and the tools are important to me. The technology used in my work is never neutral; it explores and reflects the process of making and the act of viewing. The video was made by taping a single long shot of a distant mountain; the camera started in tight and over 2:37 minutes the camera pulled back till the mountain was a tiny indistinguishable smudge in the middle of the image. After I edited every single frame back to the original composition of the mountain, blowing the image up as much as necessary to fill the screen. The crisp, clear image slowly dematerialize in to pixels.
For Daguerre and Jerry
Length: 00:00:46:07
2005
The process of creation and gaining mastery of the medium and the tools are important to me. The technology used in my work is never neutral; it explores and reflects the process of making and the act of viewing. For Daguerre and Jerry is inspired by the frustration of doing Jerry Spagnoli's daguerreotype workshop at the Banff Cenre. Due to the long exposure time necessary to do daguerreotypes, self-portraits are particularly hard and tedious. The artist is attempting to stay extremely still as long as possible. Because of the long exposure times daguerreotype portraits usually have very soft/ blurry eyes due to blinking. The frames with blinking are erased out of the video.
grasshopper Collaboration with John Will
Length: 00:03:10:20
2005
grasshopper documents my curious relationship with local Calgary artist-patriarch John Will. It's a combination of tall tales, comforting words in the face of catastrophic disasters and the struggle to achieve the perfectly manicured fingernails.
wind (Objects of Fascination Series #2)
Length: 00:00:57:27
2005
This video is part of my current body of work exploring early motion cinema practices. The original video footage is of a shop sign reminiscent of the thaumatrope (a disk with a picture on each side attached to two pieces of string, when the disk is spun, the two pictures appear to combine into a single image due to 'persistence of vision'). This is also an attempt to remove the affects of wind from a hand held camera.