As You See

As a multitude of mesmerising televisual images race past our eyes, there is a simple, but simultaneously baffling, explanation to the technology that brought moving images to your screens. As You See takes us on a curious and intoxicating journey into the illusory nature of television, and the fault in our eyes that makes it possible.

The film purports to be an explanation of the basic engineering principles adopted by early television and the eye’s facility to hold an image for a fraction of a second after it has gone.

The growing aesthetic play of the graphic dots and lines, verticals and horizontals draw us into a hypnotic state, not dissimilar to our absorption in television. The near constant presence of the dots varies in size, darts in rows and shifts between pattern and ‘live action’ conveying that they are essentially the same thing, light on our retina.

Supported by Arts Council England & Hove Museum