neige noire

Carl Brown makes celluloid dance His new film work will burn colours so deeply into your brain youll be watching a light show inside your eyelids for hours Titled Neige Noir Black Snow a name that conjures up Toronto winters but actually refers to the trenches of the First World War the piece is a visual feast It opens with a calming sequence of manipulated representations of a swimmer and the sea set to a lulling jazz tune and then crashes into a steady techno and white noise assault with pulsating images Brown radically alters the celluloid itself experimenting like a mad scientist to create gorgeous colour patterns He sometimes refilms an image up to eight times to bring its dance of distortion to a climax Any single still from this film could bring you to a stop in an art gallery and Brown gives us some 86000 of them Thomas Hirschmann