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For 30 years, Jim Southerland has combined the centuries-old camera obscura (an optical device/photography predecessor used by painters like DaVinci and Vermeer to improve perspective) with printmaking technology to produce landscapes and portraits. The artist's personally-engineered apparatus grew from a desire to take fine arts to the children of depressed areas in the Appalachians. An appreciation of Southerland's device, process, and philosophy, a half-hour film will take its structural cues from early Soviet Cinema, which often emphasized differences between cameras and the human eye. Parts of the film may be stylized to simulate the visual appearance of camera obscura images. Grant funding of between $80K and $100K will allow visits to perhaps three international sites of historical significance in the development and use of the camera obscura. Interviews with expert historians Jack and Beverly Wilgus will ground the work in credible context. |
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