16mm film, hand-processed, digitized, color

2021

Absent/Present is a crossover from photography to experimental film making, questioning the correlation between photographic image, representation, and movement. The relativity of time to length in 16mm film, gives the possibility of translating length into time. In this body of work, each photo is captured on 18.5 cm cut of 16mm (equal to 24 frames), with exposure time of 20 minutes.

This body of work is documentation of a decaying flower bouquet in my home, within 36 days, on 36 stripes of 16mm film. In this project I used a pinhole camera as a low-tech device for employing a relatively blind way of image-making. In which, the lack of viewfinder imposes a lack of control; as there is no possibility of adjusting composition and previewing the subject in front of the camera.

A presence turns into an absence as a new form of presence.