Description
Between the Bullet and the Hole is a newly commissioned film focused on the elusive and complex effects of war on women's role in ballistic research and early computing. The film combines new and archival high-speed bullet photography, schlieren and electric spark imagery, bullet sound wave imagery, forensic ballistic photography, slide rulers, punch cards, computer diagrams, and a soundtrack by electronic musician Scanner. Like a frantic animation storyboard, it explores the flickering space between the frames, testing the perceptual mechanics of visual interpolation, the possibility of reading or deciphering the gap between before and after. Interpolation - the main task of the women studying ballistics in WW2 - is the construction or guessing of missing data using only two known data points. The film tries to unpack this gap and opens it to interrogation. It questions how we interpolate or construct the gaps between bullet and hole, perpetrator and victim, presence and absence.
Aura Satz (b. 1974) was born in Barcelona and is currently based in London. Satz’s work has been performed, exhibited, and screened internationally. This includes events and exhibitions at Tate Modern, the Hayward Gallery, the Hayward Project Space, Barbican Art Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, (London); the Rotterdam Film Festival (Rotterdam); the New York Film Festival (NY); De Appel Art Centre (Amsterdam); and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead).
Details
- Work Date:
- 2015