Says Buckley of his process, «Going without camera to make these images, I work in complete darkness with
unexposed film and chemistry.
The mushroom phases are filmed in their environment as well within studio darkroom as the fungi is placed directly on
unexposed film.
Tracing physical travel, the work by Walead Beshty places
unexposed film through airport x-ray machines.
Created in the darkroom with the help of a Van de Graaff generator, sheets of
unexposed film are subjected to electrical discharges, creating sparks of light that scar the film with patterns reminiscent of organic life forms and tree - filled landscapes.
This requires running
the unexposed film through the camera multiple times, giving each frame the capacity to traverse time and location in ways that parallel the effects of Ballard's fiction and Smithson's earthwork and film.
Not exact matches
By contrast, if I had simply destroyed a blank,
unexposed piece of your
film, you would have been much less upset.
The project begins with a time - lapse of a glass jar containing fireflies and rolls of
unexposed 16 mm
film.