Barbarossa

Barbarossa

2002

Simulated Slide Projector, Video Projector

Dimensions Variable

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This work assumes the appearance of a slide projection. As the slides turned over in the carousel they seem to melt and burn up under the light from the projector.

The photographs were taken from the disastrous Second World War campaigns in Barbarossa where many lives were lost to the onslaught of fire or the bitter cold.

I projected the slides in a film projector and left them to burn and melt. I filmed this process and edited the footage to simulate a slide carousel projection, accompanied by the appropriate sound effects.

This footage was then projected onto ground glass plates attached to1940’s theatre projection lights.