Sunrise Slips
16mm, on video, 2 min, 2024
Light is at the center of Sunrise Slips , which depicts a series of disjointed sunrises over California’s Joshua Tree desert. Lertxundi shot these scenes on a borrowed camera with a broken winding mechanism. This caused the filmstrip to gradually slow as it passed in front of the lens of the camera, resulting in a series of shots which appear to brighten rapidly before cutting to each successive image. Playfully embracing the subversive and feminist connotations of “defective equipment,” the result is a hallucinatory light event, a perpetual sunrise that flashes and recedes rapidly like fireworks. Yet Lertxundi remains, as ever, invested in placing pressure on the illusory and escapist potential of cinema. There is a tension between the work’s inconspicuous scale and presentation, and its ecstatic intensity.
Produced within the programme of ”la Caixa” Foundation, Support for Creation’22. Production
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16mm, on video, 2 min, 2024
Light is at the center of Sunrise Slips , which depicts a series of disjointed sunrises over California’s Joshua Tree desert. Lertxundi shot these scenes on a borrowed camera with a broken winding mechanism. This caused the filmstrip to gradually slow as it passed in front of the lens of the camera, resulting in a series of shots which appear to brighten rapidly before cutting to each successive image. Playfully embracing the subversive and feminist connotations of “defective equipment,” the result is a hallucinatory light event, a perpetual sunrise that flashes and recedes rapidly like fireworks. Yet Lertxundi remains, as ever, invested in placing pressure on the illusory and escapist potential of cinema. There is a tension between the work’s inconspicuous scale and presentation, and its ecstatic intensity.
Produced within the programme of ”la Caixa” Foundation, Support for Creation’22. Production
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