#23.2, Book of Mirrors

Abstract film shows how pure rays of light are multiplied if they fall through kaleidoscopes or are bounced off mirrors. The film’s structure was developed in close cooperation with composer Rozalie Hirs who wrote the score. This composition is based on symmetries and inversions of proportions and gestures throughout the film. At some point #23.2 will have grown to be a cycle of five abstract films about light, inspired by concepts found in medieval and renaissance optics. The films are made with a set-up in which I use elementary optical principles to generate images. These images are caused by the interplay of light waves directly onto the emulsion, not using lenses as they are used normally to reproduce a scene outside of the camera. In that way I try to explore alternative forms of spatiality not related to traditional pictorial perspective.