FInal Year Studio - Research - A Wall is a Screen

Images courtesy of www.awallisascreen.com, originally uploaded by Jimbo (Alan James Wellock).

A Wall is A Screen is an installation that is performed all over the world, by a dedicated groupd of artists. They believe that at night, after a busy commercially fueled day cities become lonsum and deserted.

During and evening the group will walk around the city picking up an audience by playing movies of walls of various buidings. It is organised like a tour and many films are watched throughout the evening as viewers come and go. The advantage of this media experience is that the audience may travel to places they have never been, even within their own city. It makes the viewer look at both the building and place in another dimension. This forces the audience to remember a place by a distinction not felt before, it could be that they once saw 'Casablanca' on that wall!

A key byproduct of this very 'urban' style cinema is that such things as street nioses and building surface texture make every veiwing experience different, even if it is the same movie. In a sense the texture upon which it can be shown can give a great warmth or coolness sense to the viewer, very much like the supposed exagerated difference between film and pixel. The decision of what movies to show is taken before hand and vary in theamatic focus.

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