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PANORAMA 16mm Film Installation, 2000 Panorama is a kinetic installation that is activated by a viewer's movement. Seated on a moving platform, which rotates complete horizontal cycles, are a projector and screen that projects a 16 mm film loop of a train yard. Visual statements are created through the rotation and projection, that historic technology is being phased out within contemporary culture and challenges the common notion that progress is for the better. The installation also depicts an interest in the film discourse of "fantasy vs. reality" as well as conjures up a typical human fascination with nostalgia and a need for illusions and entertainment. The film loop is of a current train yard soon to be dismantled, which draws inspiration from the first projected film of a train leaving a station in 1895. The historic projection of 1895 was seen as a new revolutionary technology that has had an enormous impact on our culture. While the train yard projection in Panorama consciously acknowledges this historic and sociological reference it realizes that both these turn of the century technologies of transportation and illusion are now at risk and soon to be replaced by current technical advances. Thus Panorama creates a similar experience of the wonder and fascination that was first felt in 1895, but also provides a testament and record of technology that can create and destroy. |
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