Untitled

Cullen Ritchie

Four vibrant squares divide the screen in equal quarters. Each square is a different colour. In the left margin, two sixteen millimetre film perforations are visible. To the right of the screen, a clear section of film base can be seen. The four individual squares create a fragmented sixteen millimetre film frame when viewed as a whole.

This work is an examination of film as a vessel. Conceptually influenced by R. Bruce Elder’s The Cinema We Need (1984) and Logical Positivism, the piece provides a challenging magnification upon a broken frame which highlights the materiality of the storytelling medium and alteration of its reality.

Cullen Ritchie

Cullen is an artist from rural Ontario. His work explores themes of presence, materiality, and fragility through analog image-making and assembly-based practices.

Category: Perennials - Integrated Digital

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