Still Motions traces the tension
between the still and the moving
image, presenting works that critique
the logic of traditional photography
via its successor media, film and video.
Each work contains a degree of stillness
that is in some way destabilized
to disrupt the notion of a photograph
as a suspended moment in time. The
interaction of the three media allow
for hybrid forms of moving images to
emerge, generating the uncanny within
the familiar while adding a sensorial
– even visceral – dimension to our
appreciation of the still image.

Jutta Strohmaier and Ken Jacobs
combine traditional image-making
with new editing capabilities.
Strohmaier creates a time-lapse out
of single stills; Jacob scans old stereographic
images to bring them,
flickering, to life, animated by nonlinear
editing software. Gwenael
Belanger inverts the process, re-editing
single-channel footage into a spiraling
animation of stills. Tuomo Rainio recontextualizes
the materiality of film
by using computer software to capture
the process of celluloid as it is exposed.
Karl Lemieux and Lucia Fezzuoglio use
a classic film processing technique to
create an interactive piece that renders
the projected light as material to be
moved through.

Curated by by Mark Andre Pennock, coordinated by Karen Kraven