Daz07/02/012038

daz07/02/012038 uses an intricate form of editing to remodel time, establishing a rhetoric that questions the provision of motion in film’s pictorial space through the succession of still images. The sequence implemented by the editing technique brings to the foreground the physical viewing activity that implements the image remnant, left on the retina, to create illusion of movement. The first digital video work produced by sue.k., daz07/02/012038 was shot on analogue SVHS, digitally captured and edited in Premiere. By moving into the digital process avenues of approach, previously unavailable using analogue editing, were opened.

“daz07/02/01203 became a watershed work in sue.k.’s practice. Intent on collapsing the illusion of screen space and causing it to collide at a point that unveils its elements of construct, sue.k. developed a single frame editing system which incorporated different events of time. The work involves a clockwise pan, an anti-clockwise pan and a still camera recording of the same landscape location. These were edited in the sequence of one frame from the anti-clockwise pan, two frames from the still camera and one frame from the clockwise pan. The editing sequence was continued for the entire duration of the piece. The panning camera caught the undulating landscape of the Western Australian wheat-belt, while the still camera was positioned facing towards a rising hill from which a figure advances.” www.suek-artist.co.uk