Photosphere
Långström Minna
Photosphere revolves around the connection between a Hollywood studio film laboratory and a solar observatory during the era of celluloid filmmaking. It portrays Sara Martin, a solar astronomer who used film as research material up until the end of the 1990's when it was abandoned for digital video. Photosphere combines archival footage from the film laboratory (Pathé Laboratories in Hollywood Hills) with the film footage Martin and her colleagues shot of the sun, as well as shots of the astronomer setting up her solar telescope in her garden.
Production Year
2021
Duration
00:16:38
Tyyppi
Asiasana
astronomy, films (photography materials), history, laboratories, outer space, phenomenology, philosophy, photography, research, science, scientists and scholars, sun, women
Original Title
Photosphere
English Title
Photosphere
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
Yes
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Långström (Author), Minna Långström (Cinematographer), Minna Långström (Director), Minna Långström (Editor), Minna Långström (Script), Minna Långström (Sound Design), Svenska Kulturfonden (Funder)
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Långström is a media artist and filmmaker. Her artistic work consists of films – short fiction and documentary – as well as cinematic installations, combining moving images with spatial elements. Her work processes tend to be extensive, well researched and interdisciplinary. Her work focuses on social perspectives on technologically mediated narratives and visual technologies, as well as certain political histories and their cinematic influences on the present. The intuitive experience and role of the viewer is a central aspect of her installations.
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