Gustav, Graham and Lee

2012
Country: UK
Duration: 9 mins
Colour,
Sound: Stereo
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: DVD / Digibeta tape / SD Digital file
Original Format: 16mm film

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A short film in which we see a technician literally and technically unpacking works held within the Tate’s moving image collection. Operating a bit like a demonstration film, the analogue anatomy of slide and 16mm film projectors is revealed step by step as he cleans the mechanics and lenses, teasing their fragile parts into action. As technology develops, these once familiar machines become increasingly hard to maintain, but without them the work itself will not be visible. The camera moves from the storage warehouse where we see iconic artworks packaged, racked and stacked, to the close focus of activity in the workshop.

Responding to the notion that, in contrast to much visual art conservation, film and video work is preserved and remembered through its display, this film has prompted Tate to bring a time based media work out of storage to be screened as part of In Site of Conversation in December 2012.
This work has been screened at Tate Modern and toured UK as part of Outpost Open Film 2012.
Dir , Camera, Edit, Sound – Anna Lucas
Sound mixed by Jessica Marlowe

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