Image Room
16mm film, hand processed, transferred to digital, two channel video installation, 9:30 min, silent
2019
Image Room, Installation view, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo, 2019
Image Room is a non-narrative film, and a hybridization of cinematic references, lyricism, realism, and fiction. Contextually, the film belongs between the black box and the white cube. The projection is a self-reflexive image, containing itself being filmed again with the protagonists watching themselves. Image Room challenges the observing gaze as the central aspect of a spectacle; Through the gaze of the camera, portrayed is the gaze of the protagonist at his image, implying the fundamental place of narcissism in the creation of subject out of an objectified image.
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Image Room
16mm film, hand processed, transferred to digital, two channel video installation, 9:30 min, silent
2019
Image Room, Installation view, Galleri Seilduken, Oslo, 2019
Image Room is a non-narrative film, and a hybridization of cinematic references, lyricism, realism, and fiction. Contextually, the film belongs between the black box and the white cube. The projection is a self-reflexive image, containing itself being filmed again with the protagonists watching themselves. Image Room challenges the observing gaze as the central aspect of a spectacle; Through the gaze of the camera, portrayed is the gaze of the protagonist at his image, implying the fundamental place of narcissism in the creation of subject out of an objectified image.