'Immersion Test - Black Hole Scenario', 2011, digital video, 7mins.

I have an abstracted Columbo typing. Typing, perhaps, his own story. I found a specially coded digital video filter that interprets black hole theory. It processes the image so that every area of black becomes a gravitational vortex pulling the light around into it. Like our real sky, there are hundreds of black holes around us. In addition to his typing sounds is the vinyl soundtrack made from downloads of birdsong. The camera pulls 8m on a track into an illuminated jungle area. The looping video, sounds and camera zoom take you in and out of a performed act of mental imagining.

The work refers to Marcel Broodthaers' 'Le Jardin d'Hiver' (1979) and a typewriter from the same year was found for this work, for a detective of the same period to use, filmed in a personal location with the same ethos.

 

 

 

 

Top Left: 5mins version of film.

Middle Left: Immersion Test - Black Hole Scenario video still.

Middle Left: Installation at The Agency Gallery showing Immersion Test - Black Hole Scenario, 2011.

Bottom Left: detail of Scenario showing custom dubplate soundtrack and vintage turntable.