SAM BURFORD - INTERPRETING FILM

Recently I have seen a very interesting piece of art by Sam Burford based on Star Wars. It was a sculpture based on the timeline of the film.

The artist has been working with film for several years now, mainly creating 2D graphics and pictures based on movies, but also sculptures as the most recent one seen above. Some of his other works include timelapse photographs that, similar to the sculptures, represent the whole of the movie and resemble slit scans, storyboards, or even strips of film with drawings on them.

Intercut, 2008,  http://www.samburford.com/

In a way this shows the whole of the film in one piece of work that you can see at a glance, and none of it at the same time. The original spaces and situations from the movie are illegible and yet it makes sense as a whole, creating new visual data and reflecting more of an atmospheric feel, ambience than the content.