Picture Scroll
In this collaboration with Berlin-based Norwegian artist Øyvind Renberg, we explored the filmic translation of 2d, static and miniature pictorial universes through the magnification and the movement of the images, thus bringing to life characters from the project's pictorial space.
Original piece details: pencil drawing on tracing paper, by artist Øyvind Renberg.
Picture Scroll, production stills, 2023
Picture Scroll, production stills, 2023
Picture Scroll, production stills, 2023
The work approaches the language of narrative medieval manuscripts and Japanese picture scrolls through film. Tracking shots of a panoramic drawing, form a visual journey where time, space and characters intertwine.
The magnification of the macro lens used for the shoot, brings us deep into the world of the drawing. The illusion is broken when the camera rolls off the edge of the paper. A piece of tape appears, a ruler that holds the paper in place, implying that the drawing has a given size, that it exists as an object in a real place.
To be completed as a multi-channel film installation.
Original piece: pencil drawing on tracing paper, 300x30 cm, in progress 2023 -2024, by artist Øyvind Renberg.