Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1995 (first image)
Video installation
Two parts
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
In the early 1990s Douglas Gordon produced a series of projected works using fragments of existing film footage which he manipulated in order to draw the viewer’s attention to unseen details. These works investigate the psychological impact of the moving image and themes of perception, memory and voyeurism.
Confessions of a Justified Sinner combines three clips from an early film version of RL Stevenson’s novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde that capture saintly Jekyll transforming into monstrous Hyde. The footage is enlarged, slowed down and projected onto two separate screens, one negative and one positive, in order to prolong and blur the two states.
i researched Douglas Gordons use of projection and film editing lasy year for my foundation project for which i created a projected installation:
Tony Oursler
I enjoy the playful yet surreal nature of Ourslers' work and it inspired me into thinking about back-projection,which this time last year i had never even heard of. The way he uses projection is inventive and he combines the idea of static physical structure with moving image,which inspired me into looking at how i could use the moving image in a closed material structure to directly involve the audience and make them feel as though they are expiriencing something.
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