SOIL © Ulf Langheinrich
Chunks of low resolution footage from various randomly selected movies were altered into moving horizontal areas by extreme mono-directional blur.
Cross faded and layered they became a constantly reforming continuum of vertically drifting horizontal zones. The colour-spectrum was altered into a mainly blue cyan area with occasional red and further blur an echoing smoothed the overall impression into a seamless remolding colour-field.
Four of those fields are presented in a row of parallel but apparently not perfectly synchronized light-fields: plasma screens or projections.
This basic material only being approximately 6 minutes long is looped into 4 slightly different “movies, each 1.1/2 hour long and because of their differences they seem to drift from each other.
Am additional meta-movement is applied to establish a second layer of synchronicity
A subtle flicker, that comes and goes periodically.
SOIL has developed from a work that was originally about the drift between 4 different fields into a work that referees to my history as a painter and my interest in the reality and artificiality of projected images and perception of time.
Re-interpreting this material in 2010 a single screen HD version was developed for a screening at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing (France).
Image sound light composition: Ulf Langheinrich
Playback software version 2: Dirk Langheinrich