Where a Straight Line meets a Curve

Where a Straight Line meets a Curve
Where a Straight Line meets a Curve

2002, UK, twin 16mm projection, colour, sound by David Cunningham, 20 min.

Where a Straight Line meets a Curve is a durational sculpture, of real and imagined activity shot entirely in one room. It is a film concerned with the objective reduction of space of film itself. The visual material is constructed so that light and colour form relationships between and across the screen continuously, redefining the viewers perception of space presented through the images. Time is measured out in ways analogous to the coming and going of the everyday, exposing the passing of time to a (continuous) present. The work questions the usual strategies of the viewer, mediating between the mental image, the dimension of physical space, and the illusionist space of cinema.

excerpt from Artists statement,
Mirza/Butler 2003