Anthony McCall - Long Film for Four Projectors
Friday 15th July
In association with Hull Film for the 4th Hull International Short Film Festival.
Using film to explore ideas of space and duration, McCall creates a work via paths of intersecting light in the space between the film projector and the screen. McCall manifests a heightened sense of audience involvement with the space beyond the screen, revealing a solidity of light through the use of a fog machine which is also seen in his earlier work Line Describing a Cone (1973).
McCall began making films and performances in the UK in 1971, later moving to New York were he presently resides. He has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, as well as independent spaces including the former London Film-makers Co-op.
This showing of Long Film for Four Projectors for the 4th Hull International Short Film Festival was a rare opportunity to see this seminal work. This wass the first screening in the North of England, other screenings in the UK having been at Tate Modern and the Mead Gallery (Warwick Arts centre) who also published an illustrated book about his film installations.