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Painting (I)

(2016–2017) unreleased

Synopsis
A 30-second long moving shot of tree branches in the night is abstracted by slowing the original footage down to 360 minutes, rendering the movement in the shot imperceptible to the naked eye, in a sense undoing all that is conventionally considered cinema, revealing the tension between still image and moving image, and raising the question of the limits of optical perception, and what is cinema?


Technical Information
360 minutes
16:9 aspect ratio
2K resolution
Silent

iPhone 6 Plus
Edited with Final Cut Pro X



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Work with other filmmakers & artists

Completed


  • Silent Friend
    Ildikó Enyedi, 2025
    production consultant

  • The Occupant of the Room
    Kier-La Janisse, 2025
    colourist & visual artist

  • Standing at the Ruins
    Saeed Taji Farouky, TBA)
    cinematographer & visual artist

  • To the Moon
    Tadhg O’Sullivan, 2020
    cinematographer, visual artist, musician

  • Wind 
    Emmit Fenn, 2019
    directior, cinematographer, editor

  • The Sadness of the Trees 
  • 2015
    collaboration with Mikel Guillen 


Unreleased

  • ‘The Speed of Dark’
    collaboration with Phil Solomon