Z-Point, 2001/2004 (left)

48 plastic pixels, DMX module

Soundtrack by David Grubbs

The last eight minutes of the Film “Zabriskie Point” by M. Antonioni, where actor Daria Halprin’s imagination causes a luxury house in the desert to explode, are pixeled one image per second of film. 8 minutes are reduced to fractions of a second, with the result that the visitor experiences the scene as a colour-and-light happening to create an image, which can barely be grasped or perceived. The work consists of a freestanding 48-unit Pixel Box wall in the 3:4 proportions of 35mm films.

Photo © Carsten Eisfeld