Untitled, 2021
Philipp Groth
Three-Channel Video (Digitalized 16mm Monochrome), Black Steel

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June 23 - July 23, 2022 SITE Galleries
33 E Washington St , Chicago, IL, United States 

A motion study on sixteen-millimeter monochrome is deconstructed hierarchically across three channels using analog and digital effects in the tradition of a zoetrope. Depending on the angle from which the black steel "canvas" are viewed, the relationship, intensity and sharpness of the projections varies. The work is not only reconstructing an apparatus from early cinema with modern Technology, asking about progress and standstill in moving image making at large, but also references the relationship of film and military. Interrupted by the "shutter", the accelerating motion further evokes associations with gun violence in the US.

From left to right: Untitled Installation View 01, Untitled Film Still 01, Untitled Film Still 02, Untitled Film Still 03, Untitled Film Still 04