This will be the first viewing opportunity using state of the art projection and sound facilities.
Further info shortly...
Initial sequence from twin screen installation, to be launched at InSpace Gallery Edinburgh, May 27/28 2011.
The romance of science, the entropy of analogue engineering, and the reflections of participants.
Production supported by a Creative Scotland £20.000 artists film and video award.
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
Saturday, 11 December 2010
Deep Time Blog Post
Two recent discoveries from artists working with deep time; relevant to Dounreay project in that they both want to consider human activity and bodily time in relation to the nearly unimaginable.
Ilana Halperin's work is the most meditative attempt that I've seen since Robert Smithson to understand and reconcile the bodily span of our lives and the implacable forces which will shape the world long-term.
All of Halperin’s creative work asks the question: ‘how can artworks be produced in relation to geological time?’ Physical Geology expands Halperin’s investigative practice into the realm of biology. This is a beautiful artists book.
ALSO
INTO ETERNITY - SYNOPSIS
Documentary 2009, 75 min, HD 16:9
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
Once the waste has been deposited and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that? And how is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? How do we prevent them from thinking they have found the pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect our instructions? While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.
Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.
Film Credits
PRODUCTION
Director and Scriptwriter Michael Madsen
Producer Lise Lense-Møller
Editors Daniel Dencik, Stefan Sundlöf
Director of PHOTOGRAPY Heikki Färm F.S.C.
Sound Design Nicolai Linck, Øivind Weingaarde
Mix Tomas Arwe
In a few cinemas now, on DVD shortly.
Ilana Halperin's work is the most meditative attempt that I've seen since Robert Smithson to understand and reconcile the bodily span of our lives and the implacable forces which will shape the world long-term.
ALSO
INTO ETERNITY - SYNOPSIS
Documentary 2009, 75 min, HD 16:9
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world's first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock - a huge system of underground tunnels - that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
Once the waste has been deposited and the repository is full, the facility is to be sealed off and never opened again. Or so we hope, but can we ensure that? And how is it possible to warn our descendants of the deadly waste we left behind? How do we prevent them from thinking they have found the pyramids of our time, mystical burial grounds, hidden treasures? Which languages and signs will they understand? And if they understand, will they respect our instructions? While gigantic monster machines dig deeper and deeper into the dark, experts above ground strive to find solutions to this crucially important radioactive waste issue to secure mankind and all species on planet Earth now and in the near and very distant future.
Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.
Film Credits
PRODUCTION
Director and Scriptwriter Michael Madsen
Producer Lise Lense-Møller
Editors Daniel Dencik, Stefan Sundlöf
Director of PHOTOGRAPY Heikki Färm F.S.C.
Sound Design Nicolai Linck, Øivind Weingaarde
Mix Tomas Arwe
In a few cinemas now, on DVD shortly.
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