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Shorts 2: Artistic Visions – Brice Bischoff – Bronson Caves
August 31, 2024 @ 5:10 pm – 5:30 pm EDT
Photographer Brice Bischoff’s psychedelic photographs explore time, space, and the history of the moving image in one of the most famous locations in Los Angles California: The Bronson Caves.
Director: Christin Turner
Producer: Amy DiCesare
Starring: Brice Bischoff
2023 | 20 mins | US | Color | 🏆 | Documentary, Art, Experimental, Portrait
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Other films in this program include:
About the Filmmaker
Christin Turner (b. 1985, USA) is a film director and video artist whose work seeks to change our ideas of the past with a new and more modern outlook. Turner’s use of color and light has been described as painterly, impressionistic, and psychedelic. She received an MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a BA from the University of California San Diego. Her experimental films have been featured on vdrome and Frieze, and have screened at a variety of venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Villa, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Karlovy-Vary, True/False, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal, 25FPS Festival, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and at Kurzfilmtage Hamburg where she was awarded the De-Framed Prize (2017). Her work has been supported with residencies at MacDowell, the Bogliasco Foundation, Kulturhaus Villa Sträuli, and the Union Docs Summer Lab. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Los Angeles, California.
Director’s Statement
Artist Brice Bischoff knew there was something special about these caves, which like most things in Los Angeles are completely fake. Originally a rock quarry, the dramatic appearance of the Bronson Caves made it filming location for countless motion pictures and TV shows since 1903. Now closed indefinitely to the public due to unstable rocks, this film is therefore a time capsule of the caves and of an utterly unique photographic project from Bischoff. He meditates on all the millions of movements and actions recorded by cinema at the caves, and performs for the camera with massive sheets of colored paper. Since a long-exposure photograph is produced rather than a motion picture, the papers are recorded as voluminous, glowing colors. The paper is transformed, and the materiality of the rainbow forms, emerging from the mouth of the cave, dancing about the canyon, and bubbling up from the ground, are based solely in the photographic process, and can only be viewed in the photograph.