(16mm film print painted with birth control pills, writing inks and sweat - bought from a Brooklyn, New York street vendor)
16mm film print transferred to high-definition
1 minute, 15 seconds
(16mm negative strobe-light double and triple exposed - painted with brine shrimp - dripped, splattered and sprayed with salted liquids: balsamic and red wine vinegar, lemon and lime juice, temporary flourescent hair dyes - photos from friends Mark
Titchner, Karen Russo, Aaron Moulton and Ignacio Uriarte and some google maps- texts by Jwest and Chris Markers' Sans Soleil script -shot by Peter West, strobed by Jwest, hands by Ariel West, telecine by Tom Sartori)
16mm negative transferred to high-definition - 9 minutes, 1 second
(16mm negative filmstrips taped to tables at Casal Solleric in Mallorca, Spain - where visitors melted candle wax, wrote, scratched, smeared lipstick, rubbed soppressata, crumbled cookies, made marks with beer bottles and spilled wine on the
filmstrips - double exposed images of mosaic floors and telecine machines of Fotokem labs in Los Angeles shot by Peter West)
2 minutes, 46 seconds
Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film, 2013
(70mm film negative floated in the Dead Sea and given a healing clay bath in extreme heat in 2008 - stuffed in a suitcase, placed in studio buckets, covered in clay and salt for five years - dragged along the salt encrusted rocks of the Spiral Jetty
dragging and rolling by Aaron Moulton, Ignacio Uriarte and Jwest - DIY telecine frame by frame of salt covered film by Chris Hanke)
54 seconds
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