Document Type
Book Chapter
RIS ID
55232
Abstract
In March 2007, The Teaching and Learning Cinema, an artist group from Sydney, Australia, coordinated by Louise Curham and myself, recreated the conditions for a contemporary experience of Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light (1975). Long Film for Ambient Light is a work of Expanded Cinema, comprising the bare minimum elements required for "film": light, time, a screen, and an audience. Here I discuss some aspects of this recreation, with particular focus on the compilation of an "experiential document" as a way of understanding how the work affected individuals who encountered it.
Publication Details
Ihlein, L. M. "Attending to Anthony McCall's Long Film for Ambient Light." Perform Repeat Record: Live Art in History. 1 ed. Ed.A. Heathfield & A. Jones. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2012, 333-346.