Lightspiel
Animation (Loop) 01:00 min
2023
Lightspiel consists of an animation of red colored still images picked from a Super-8 film capturing an eclipse. This is the first filmed solar eclipse that we know about and was filmed by the magician and astronomy enthusiast Nevil Maskelyne in North Carolina on May 28th 1900. This animation is intended to be presented as a projection in different scales and on different surfaces.
Original still from footage by Nevil Maskelyne,
restored by BFI National Archive.
Image from the performance lecture day at School of Economics, Stockholm, with Prof. Wontag. Here the film was projected accompanied with shadow play performad by Jaana-Kristiina Alakoski & Elmer Blåvarg. Photo by Neil Bhat.