A young Dutch artist and musician, Joost Rekveld is most certainly one of the direct descendants of post-war graphic animated cinema and 50s and 60s kinetic art. His films, expanded or single screen, much like his installations, are based on a careful study of colour theory, of light and of time. He has, moreover, written a number of essays on these themes. His work stretches as far as serial music and its application in cinema.
#5, a film for three screens, explores the relationship between image and time, looking at how time can write itself onto the film. The three films, created by taking the luminous effects produced by objects in movement as their starting points, are somewhat like action paintings where the bands of light substitute the brushstrokes.

#5 is a film for three projectors and three independent screens next to each other. The images were created by shooting moving reflecting forms with widely varying exposure-times. These images were then printed on the film strip in various ways. The film explores the relation between image and time on the film strip and modulates continuously between what I I regard as two extremes in this respect. In practice, the one extreme consists of film sequences I shot frame by frame with very long exposure-times. These images are light- trails, drawn by moving objects. Illusion of movement during projection is caused by the interference between the movement of the recorded system and the speed of the camera. The other extreme consists of snapshots which I printed on fields of film strips using a photo-enlarger. I spliced these strips together after developing and used them as a printing master. In this way the original image is scattered across several film images and is "scanned" during projection from top left to bottom right. The films are based on a global score for colour, the type of image and the size of the film fields. The images were made using very non-virtual, simple reflecting materials and can be regarded as a kind of action painting with light.