ARTIST: Richard Misek
WHERE: Jennison Production Studio
WHEN: Saturday and Sunday 14:00-20:00
Black Box is a four-screen video installation, a collage of some of the visually darkest scenes in film history. Made from light, but eschewing it, the video provides a counterbalance to the festival’s surrounding illumination. Darkened rooms and windowless cellars, deep forests and caves, outer space and inner spaces, abstract spaces and graphic spaces… under cover of darkness, and with the support of a seamless soundtrack, all merge into a single cinematic space of indistinct activity. Variously crowded and empty, violent and peaceful, erotic and reflective, this tenebrous on-screen space itself merges into the darkness of the black box studio in which it is screened: the cinematic darkness spills beyond the frame to create an immersive black space where image and imagination coexist.
Richard Misek is a filmmaker, and lecturer in digital arts at the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.