Madison Brookshire

Madison Brookshire

История

Madison Brookshire (US) lives in Los Angeles, where he makes films, paintings and performances. His projects often invite viewers to an awareness of perceptual processes and the sensuous experience of time. He frequently collaborates with musicians and composers such as LCollective, Mark So, Laura Steenberge and Tashi Wada. He is currently a Lecturer at University of California, Riverside in the departments of Art and the History of Art.

Профиль

Madison Brookshire

Фильмы

Revenant
Director
Hand-painted frames that oscillate between red and blue. Alongside the frames emptied of figuration, the relentless tones of Revenant form a wall of sound, an intense viewing and listening experience.
Over 30 Minutes
Director
A 16mm film made entirely at the lab using the timing lights of the printing process. The image is simply a flat field of color, a deep purplish gray, unchanging except for minor variations of film grain, chemistry, and dust (as such, it does not readily translate to video and does not have an online preview). The color extends to the area that the projector interprets as sound, creating a soft, pink noise.
Two
Director
Two is mostly dark; the film is unexposed except for two flares that articulate the darkness. The color extends to the soundtrack area of the film, producing a soft noise that changes slightly at the moments the film flares.
As Water Is In Water
Director
Paintings collide to produce panels of time distended with space, set to music by Tashi Wada. While the score is spare, the image is excessive, the meter working with and against the imagery. The picture is made from paint-soaked 16mm film strips, reinterpreted with a digital camera, edited to cycle in short, hallucinatory loops, forming abstract thaumatropes.
Veils
Director
A hand-made, paint soaked film, allowing evaporation, dust, crystallization, mold, and more to inform the image. Film strips— stained over days, weeks, and months with acrylic paint, ink, urine, termite droppings, etc.—are soaked in paint and saturated with time, resulting in a turbulent palimpsest with many layers and textures visible at once, each one moving with its own rhythm. There is an affective quality to the excesses of the imagery that is both repetitive and ecstatic, yet the overall experience is quiet and reflective.
Color Series
Director
Color Series was made by providing the film laboratory with six written scores that directed the film timer to change the printing lights from "Red" to "Green" to "Blue." The result is a series of slow fades from one colour to the next, which, not unlike the experience of a sunrise, immerses the viewer in the perceptual phenomenon of gradual change. As Brookshire writes, "The subject of the work is duration, and color is the medium through which we experience it. The converse is also true: the subject is color and duration is the medium. The effect is a direct experience of time and vision."
Two
Director
Two rolls. Two flares.