Scattered Light

A film-performance by Joshua Mastel & Nicolas Cadena

Dual-projection 16mm film performance with hand-gilded mirrors and 4-channel digital sound

Silver nitrate adheres to sensitized glass in ways similar to the photochemical emulsion in film. Both are technologies of light which act as atomizers to refract and reflect the latent past and the present image. Over a coursing river of sound, Scattered Light traces a process of image generation by showing the stages of mirror gilding, from transparent glass to reflective light. Through this transformation, light becomes elemental, swirling in space and adhering in time.

Poster and stills from Scattered Light: