Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016
Oct 28, 2016–Feb 5, 2017
Jennifer West
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As part of the Dreamlands film series, Jennifer West’s films screen in The Color of Light, a program of artists engaging in the material, sensory and optical qualities of film, painting directly onto celluloid, layering images, and multiple exposures, covering film leader in liquids, scratching, stomping, drawing on and chemically altering the film’s surface, and shifting back and forth between the real world and its vibrant kaleidoscopic abstraction.
This screening takes place on January 20, 2017. Learn more.
Jennifer West (b. 1966), still from Idyllwild Campfire Smell Film, 2008
Jennifer West (b. 1966), still from Idyllwild Campfire Smell Film (16mm film neg lit by the campfire and treated with bug spray, white gas, gin, sweat, smoke, pitch, marshmallow, beer, wine, pit toilet, dirt, sap, tent & sleeping bag – featuring marshmallow roasting by a bunch of friends), 2008. 16mm film, color, silent, 2:49 min., negative transferred to digital video. Collection of the artist