Zoetrope

An idea I had for presenting my work was to exhibit in a round room (or make the walls curved) and project the film collage against the walls, with the tree in the middle. As people walked around the tree they would interrupt the beam of projection thus creating black outs / shadows or silences in the image. I very much like the idea of the distortion of the imagery projected on curved walls and the interuption of the projected imagery.
I started thinking about the animation of the imagery as well. This together with the curved room and broken projection got me thinking and I remembered the Zoetrope. A Zoetrope is a circular device with slits in it's side and on the inside there are images, when the device is spun around and you look through the slits the images look as if they are moving.

youtube - ZOETROPE

I have now started to think and develop ideas inspired by the spaces or flickers created by a zoetrope. I had wanted to create black spaces or silences in my footage as well as in my sound scape. Originally this was just going to be a small part of the film and compliment the sound scape. However now I have remembered the Zoetrope it has a whole other layer.

My sound scape will include the rhythm of trains. I like the correlation of the rhythm of the image flicker and the sound of the trains. I am very inspired by the Zoetrope and will continue to research it and test some means of animation with spaces (blank or blacked out separators).