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Point Line Plane (for PP) video film

Point Line Plane involves the superimposition of grids of different greyscale values on, in the first instance, a black background. The quadrilateral forms in Point Line Plane articulate the lattice of pixels that forms the foundation of all digital imaging. Like the iris transitions in Iris Out, the layered grids also represent an illusion of depth in the picture plane, but half way through the piece a negative, inverted sequence is woven into the work, creating an intense optical flicker. The flicker phenomenon is, to a degree, integral to cinematic imaging. In the focused and intense flicker of Point Line Plane, the screen’s reflected light illuminates the auditorium. The illusion of depth in screen space is thus matched and mirrored by the effect of light in the space of the viewing theatre – the light of the video is given architectural significance.

Point Line Plane has been shown at the Australian International Experimental Film Festival, Melbourne; Media City, Windsor, Ontario; Onion City, Chicago Film Festival; Edinburgh International Film Festival; Exis, Seoul, Korea; Festival of Different and Experimental Cinema, Paris; 'Black and White' BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna; ‘Same Same But Different’ Images Festival, Toronto; ‘Waves and Particles’, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan; You aren’t anything, you are everything Duchy Gallery Glasgow. Point Line Plane also showed as part of the Images Festival touring programme at the OK Video Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia and Anthology Film Archives, New York and it is part of the Ann Arbor Film Festival touring programme, visiting numerous American Cities in 2011/12.

Point Line Plane is cited in A.L. Rees (2010) 'Four Experimental Filmmakers' in Sequence, issue 1. ( ISSN: 2048-2167)