ps-ixelLab · Degree project 2000
Twisted.
A different way through a film.
A film normally shows one moment after another. Twisted combines different moments within the same image. As the source moves, its shapes stretch and turn into something else.
Original project, 2000: no generative AI.
Treating time as a dimension.
Imagine stacking every frame of a film. Width and height describe the image; depth represents time. Taking a different slice through that stack reveals a different image. Offsetting the timing of individual rows can turn a rotating subject into a spiral.
Where the work began.
This was the subject of my final degree project at Hochschule der Künste Berlin in 2000. Its German title was “Experimentelle Videomontagen durch Verschiebung der Bild-Zeitkoordinaten”. I worked with a programmer friend on software that allowed slices through a film to be rotated and moved.
I also built a slit camera, moving 35 mm film past a narrow opening with a motor, and took photographs from a moving S-Bahn train. It offered a physical way to investigate the relationship between an image and the time it records.
Status and contributors
Concept and design: Patrick Schürfeld. Original software developed with a programmer friend.
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