Fire in the Eye (Painting with Electricity) - Edinburgh Festival

Sixty second promo for the film "Fire in the Eye" by art group Disinformation. The images were made by literally painting with 30kV electric discharges directly onto 35mm film stock. The film ends with a signature shot - a Kirlian photograph created by high-voltage electricity imprinting its author's thumb-print directly onto the photographic medium.

Extending a series of electrical and lightning themed art projects that go back to the formation of Disinformation in 1995, the still-image version of "Fire in the Eye" was made in July 2004, and featured in Disinformation solo exhibitions at Wrexham Arts Centre in 2006, the Saltburn Gallery in 2007, and in a group exhibition at Viktor Wynd Fine Art (London) in 2010. Images from the 2004 version have also been used to illustrate Disinformation projects at Iniva (London) and Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and featured on the front cover of the film magazine "Vertigo".

"Fire in the Eye" was proposed for exhibition to The National Galleries of Scotland in 2007, with the 35mm cinema version (commissioned by Threshold Studios for the Arts Council England) being made in 2007 and premiering at The Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2008, being exhibited at Goldsmiths College in 2008, and played on rotation in a week-long festival of Disinformation films at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle in 2010 (in the same building in which Newcastle's AV Festival have their offices). "Fire in the Eye" images were last exhibited by, and are currently on semi-permanent display at Usurp Gallery in London.

http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2009/liminal/liminal

http://tinyurl.com/mcb2qg

http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fo3/low/programme/index.php?page=nav.inc.php&...

http://www.thepixelpalace.org/events

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[lagowski]

Would love to see it in super slow mo

[lagowski]

read the info on the right

[CarrieRulesTheBlock]

cool wheres the sound?