24p

A public artwork at the Calgary Film Centre. Twenty-four mirrored frames, one for every frame in a second of film.

24p: mirrored aluminum frames in spectrum colours outside the Calgary Film Centre

Discipline

Installation

Deliverable

Public art installation

Year

2017

Role

Concept and design, with Marta Timmer

24p: aluminum slats in blue, green and white against a black screen

The project

Public art installation for the Calgary Film Centre, commissioned by Kasian. Created with artist Marta Timmer and fabricated by Carvel Creative in aircraft aluminum with industrial coatings.

The piece is a homage to film’s standard rate of 24 frames per second. A black 16:9 screen stands in for the blank slate of a film not yet made. Across it, 24 mirrored slats, one for each frame, catch the street, the traffic and the people walking by. The edges of each frame are painted through the colour spectrum, the raw material of every cinematic image. It reads from both sides, each a mirror of the other.

Spectrum-painted edges seen from the side

Process

Loading the piece out of the shop by forklift

Installation on site at the Calgary Film Centre

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