Release Date: 2022
Country: UK
Duration: 20 minutes
Colour, Sound: Ambisonic dispersion
Ratio: 1.33:1x3 + 4K projection
Format: 3x16mm, 4K video
Trilateral Descent is an expanded 20-minute film combining the illusory motion of a 16mm triptych with digital projection and live sound. The film explores what is often described to as ‘religious conditioning’, breaking these illusions down into a hypnotic physiological experience as the brain is forced to reconcile sight and sound. It intends to provoke contradictory states of euphoria and horror to reveal the depths of the unconscious.The screen is prepared with three photodiode sensors, that respond to the phasing of the projectors light. This feedback system triggers custom-made analogue hardware in real-time and performed as a live soundtrack.
CREDITS
A film by Steven McInerney
Performed live as Merkaba Macabre
Photodiode module by Tom Richards
TECHNICAL1 x ELF Xenon 16mm projector w/ 25mm lens
2 x ELF NT1 16mm projectors w/ 50mm lense
1 x 4K digital projection
3 x Photodiode sensors
1 x Custom built 3ch photodiode to CV module
1 x Modular synthesiser, drum machine & effects
EXHIBITIONS
IKLECTIK Art Lab (Expanded film performance, London, UK) – Trtrate Label LaunchJune 11, 2022
Spark House (Video installation, London UK) June 4, 2022