John Woodman
Landscape films 1977-1982
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Original format Super 8, 16mm
Year 1977 - 1982
Artist(s) John Woodman
Running time 137 min
Films
TIME FLOW (1977) 11'
LIGHT MOVEMENTS (1977) 11'
OBSERVATIONAL SERIES (1977) 19'
BEACH FRAGMENTS (1978) 6'
PEAR TREE (1977-81) 18'
SPIDER (1979) 11'
DAWN AND DUSK (1977) 10'
BRIDGE (1980) 10'
REFLECTIONS ON MY SHADOW (1980) 30'
TIME FLOW (1977) 11'
Description
John Woodman works with landscape as an experimental filmmaker, video artist, and photographer, and has been exhibiting his work internationally for 38 years. The collection of films selected for this DVD focuses on his early landscape works made in 16mm and Super 8 between 1977 and 1982. Exploring time, space, and light, his work examines how landscape enables the representation and perception of visual transformation, change, and transience through film. Particular attention is given to how, over time, changes in light, weather, and season affect our perception of space and place.
The time-lapse and fixed-frame shooting techniques employed in Pear Tree, Dawn and Dusk, and Beach Fragments each produce a different and distinctive form of filmic register depending on the number and frequency of images captured. Duration is a central concern in the films Light Movements, Observational Series, Spider, Bridge, and Reflections on my Shadow, where long continuous takes invite the viewer into a contemplative and reflective viewing experience. The two-screen film Time Flow contrasts a long take with a series of time-lapse sequences.