No offense to artist Fiona Tan, I don’t know if this film should be screened as an installation. Watching the film as a straight film I was transported to some place special, some place that isn’t going to be reached by seeing this in a museum with people wandering in and out.
FOOTSTEPS is made up of film shot from 1896 to the 1920'stinted, scored and with occasional letters from the perios being read over the images. It’s a trip back through time and space to a place not so far away.
I was transported. The world fell away and I got lost in the images. It was a magical experience. I’m not certain if being an installation is going to be quite as magical.
That said FOOTSTEPS will be playing at the Museum of the Moving Image’s First Look Festival so feel free to wander in and take a look
There will be a reception and a Q&A with Fiona Tan on March 15.
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