Black Square
Grace Weir
Contributors
Cinematography - Jefferson Miller, Bobby Teten, Tommy Weir
Editing - Colm Farrell, Grace Weir
Sound editing - David Walker
Producer - Tommy weir, Janey Pictures
Director - Grace Weir
Editing - Colm Farrell, Grace Weir
Sound editing - David Walker
Producer - Tommy weir, Janey Pictures
Director - Grace Weir
Synopsis
Black Square takes a documentative approach to the making of an image of the black hole that lies in the exact centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. Black Square documents the artist and the film crew as they journey across the Atacama Desert in Chile to the telescopes at the top of Cerro Paranal, where an astronomy team from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics are at work, observing the galactic centre. The trajectory of the film dissolves into limitations, both physical and conceptual, exploring the dynamic between what can be understood and what cannot, a mobile threshold where intuition meets calculation. Reaching the limits of the resolution of the telescope, the film ends with the crew and astronomers staring at the black pixel on a screen that contains the black hole, a place where the digital and the physical realm overlap and intersect at their boundaries.
Concept & Technique
The depiction of limitations, both conceptual, physical and representational. A double screen installation of two simultaneous films.
Screenings
2015 - 3 different nights, recurring Irish Museum of Modern Art
2018 - A Visibility Matrix, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2018 - A Visibility Matrix, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Details
Title
Black Square
Year
2015
Genres
Cultural Commentary, Documentary, Narrative
Topics
Arts, Environment, Physical Sciences, technology
Key phrases
Astronomy, Science, Experimental, Film making
Language
English
Duration
00:40:00
Original formats
Digital HD
Screening formats
HDV
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour
Sound
Yes
