Margaret Honda, also active in the field of sculpture, installation and
photography, produced "Equinox". Photo courtesy of Margaret Honda
EQUINOX
USA 2020
Director: Margaret Honda
Format, screen ratio: 70mm (5-perforation), color, silent, 1:2.2
Running time: 22 minutes
Technical Adviser: Vince Roth
EQUINOX begins with a uniform field of black, then gradually moves through
progressively lighter fields of gray until it reaches white, then reverses
toward black. Of the film’s total running time, half is darker than middle
gray and half is lighter than middle gray. Despite its appearing to be
monochrome, it is a color film made by exposing a standard roll of 70mm
print stock to the three colored lights in a contact printer. In shifting
combinations, these lights produce the range of monochrome densities from
black to white.
This work was conceived in 2013 as a companion piece to
"Spectrum
Reverse Spectrum", a 70mm film
I completed in 2014 that presents the light spectrum from violet to red and
back again. The material origins of both films, the equivalent of camera
originals, are the timing tapes that control the lights in the printer.
Without images to direct your attention, both films remind you of the body
you inhabit, an effect enhanced by the size and brilliance of 70mm
projection.
Made by exposing a standard roll of 70mm print stock to colored light in a
contact printer, Equinox begins with a uniform field of black, then
gradually moves through progressively lighter fields of gray until it
reaches white, then reverses toward black.
Premiere at Kino Arsenal 1, Berlin, Germany, at the Berlinale as part of
Forum Expanded
• 23.02.2020, 22:00
• 25.02.2020, 15:00
• Go to PDF: A short report on the Berlin
screenings
• Also,
"Spectrum
Reverse Spectrum" will
screen 04.03.2020 at La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, France, as part of
the seminar Journée d'étude internationale : Histoires de la couleur à
l'écran
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More in 70mm reading:
Margaret Honda's "Spectrum Reverse
Spectrum" in 70mm
Margaret Hondas
experimenteller 70mm Kurzfilm "Spectrum Reverse Spectrum"
Margaret Honda's experimental
70mm short movie "Spectrum Reverse Spectrum"
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