CHANGING THE SHAPE OF FILM

A 12′ diameter translucent balloon is suspended from the ceiling. Two 16mm projectors are prepared with light sculpting funnels (curled black paper) for circular projection.

The projectors are not synchronous but the films are closely aligned. On the balloon are staggered multiple images of Bent Time, 1983, a film tracking high energy locations in the U.S. and shot with a 9mm lens to bend the image at the edges of the frames. Time curves, space bends, viewers walk around and lie below to see the visualization of the phenomenon of time curving at the edge of the universe.

Films and film performance by Barbara Hammer (reprised from 1979-1983)

• 
• 
• 
• 
•