Oil on linen

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A Serious Man (1h 45m) is part of a practice-based research project exploring how contemporary painting can compress the time and space of a film. The outcome of this exploration is a series of oil paintings that engages with two key methods of film aesthetics, montage and mise-en-scene.

Each painting appropriates an individual film through digital collage. These digital collages are made up of fragments from chronological cross sections of a film, selected for their heightened mise-en-scene. The work speaks to a suite of temporalities. The time in the studio, the time of the film, the time the viewer spends with the work, a moment in their life. Also the time between creation and reception.

Highest quality Archival Methods/Mediums, Michael Harding Oil Paint, & Claessans Belgian linen. Professionally stretched.