Time Frame

By Ruth Levene 2012

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Commissioned for In the Blink of an Eye by the National Media Museum, with the support of imove for The Culture Olympiad. Many Thanks to Leon Baptiste

In Collaboration with Anne-Marie Culhane

A two part video installation.

Working with world-class sprinter Leon Baptiste, the athlete was trained by Anne-Marie to slow down his movements while remaining in constant forward motion. The video was shot at British Olympic training ground at Loughborough University. The shots were framed in such a way as to not reference any other movement or sense of time, such as shadows from the sun and with the marks on the tracks as a nod to the works of Etienne Jules-Marey and Eadweard Muybridge whose work was in the exhibition.

Time Frame was exhibited alongside images, objects and technology from the National Media Museums archive that explore the relationship between media and movement. The exhibition revealed how photographers, inventors and scientists have responded to the challenges of capturing and simulating movement, creating images which transcend the boundaries of Art, Science and Entertainment.