Chemical Intervention in (Film) History

Since the late 1970s Jürgen Reble (born Düsseldorf, Germany 1956) has been exploring the manipulation of found footage through chemical interventions. The result is stunning–shifted, degraded images radically alter the way we see the material. Underlying structures are exposed, bringing to the fore the hidden majesty of a suddenly liquid-like frame, the layers of emulsion and the projectors light create a hypnotic cinematic dance.

Reble’s films, installations and performances have been seen world-wide, including in MoMA New York, the Louvre Paris and the Filmmuseum Amsterdam.

The Oslo Cinemateket presents his three-part, chemically altered, interpretation of film history. Here he explores 19th century optical inventions from the Zoetrope to the Kinetoscope before moving to the revolutionary film documents of the Brothers Lumière (starting 1895) and finishing with A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire
from 1906.

Chemical Intervention in (Film) History is literally «history on acid».

More info: https://www.cinemateket.no/filmer/chemical-intervention-in-film-history