Jefta Varwijk

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Viewinglink - To Caress a Cloud - filmloop - 24’

(Please remember to go full screen and put on headphones!)Since the piece is a loop, be encouraged to start anywhere in the timeline.




In To Caress a Cloud, I construct clouds in the forest and film them at 500 frames per second using a decades-old 16mm camera, combining the footage with sound and voice to shape an immersive cinematic loop.

The work unfolds as a meditative, sensuous experience—an invitation to feel, rather than resolve, the instability of perception. To experience uncertainty not as a vice, but to embrace its beauty.
This expanded cinema piece still in development, and grounded in the science of perception with support provided by Utrecht University’s AttentionLab, run by professor Stefan van der Stigchel.
 Visit the project’s page here.

specs of prototype:
16mm transferred to 2k
Urmii p2.6 6,5x2m LED wall
2.1 sound
5 beanbags
1 bench

notes:
- also available for projection when in black box enviroment
- LED wall opens possibility for mixed, daylight or outside enviroments
- Supported by dutch filmfund with a development grant.

further development:
- Could be done in communication with curator/programmer
Seeking ‘realisation’ funding from Dutch Filmfonds for final piece.









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