As Seen On TV David Rimmer, 1986
Much of the imagery seen on TV is first captured on film; here the filmmaker has reversed the process. As the title suggests, this film foregrounds the aesthetic nature of the television, cinematic medium by manipulating its pictorial qualities image grain, scan lines and its luminous colour qualities. The structure of the film alternates between looped, processed stock TV imagery and a blank, static blue screen. This formal motif a blank frame or screen onto which the artist projects imagery which expresses inner emotions and anxieties is a motif which recurs throughout Rimmer s filmic oeuvre. As Seen on TV is a moving film which conveys a deepseated human Maria Insell
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