Double Exposure
by Sarah Tulloch

Synopsis:
Double Exposure by Sarah Tulloch uses 16mm film footage sourced from the BBC Natural History Unit archive. Selected shots of background landscape scenes from the original footage were edited according to their predominant colour; red, blue or green.
Sarah Tulloch produced Double Exposure through her time on Picture This' Small Wonders Scheme. Double Exposure was her first moving image work and Sarah was keen to explore the very physicality of working with 16mm footage. Sarah worked to re-film the NHU footage frame by frame and to manually edit using Picture This' steenbeck edit table. Sarah also worked with specialist 16mm organisations such as no.w.here and Soho Images, London and Wurm in Rotterdam.
The resulting work is a three screen 16mm piece where each frame has been carefully duplicated and repeatedly overlaid creating new landscapes and shifting background and foreground. Used for their visual effects rather than the content of the footage Sarah was free to liberally rework the original natural history imagery to create a new work looking at formal concerns such as colour, pace and pattern. The layering of the film draws a new and seductive complexity from the familiar scenes, creating an almost liquid dance of material as background and foreground merge and mutate into Rorschach-like patterns within strictly edited colour sequences.
Details:
Year | 2007 |
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Duration | 11 minutes |
Medium | 3 screen 16mm film projection |
Original format | 16mm film |
Screening format | 16mm film |
Aspect ratio | 4:3 |
Audio | No |
Colour / B&W | Colour |
Screens | 3 |
Credits:
Supported by Picture This through Small Wonders and project funding from South West Screen (RIFE Lottery funding).
Screening History:
23 January - 03 February 2008
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Netherlands
15 March – 19 April 2008
'Three'
Picture This Atelier
Projects
Small Wonders
2002 - 2009
Our Small Wonders professional development scheme offered artists the mentoring support and technical resources needed for making film and video
Artists
Sarah Tulloch
Sarah Tulloch's work investigates the cultural representation of landscape and its relationship to the material fabric of the photographic image.