‘Sixteen By Nine’ POL Print Release
POL Launch Party
@ Micro-Labs Melbourne
October 2022
An evening of celebration to launch two new Post Office Lane projects into orbit- ‘Look Book’ and ‘Sixteen by Nine’. Welcomed with open arms into the innovative Micro-Labs Melbourne space, POL made its kooky modular interiors their own; interweaving framed screen prints, book mountains, video works and colourful posters throughout. Lots of love to Micro-Labs for hosting us, and Temple Brewing for the refreshments. There’ll be more where this came from!
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@ Micro-Labs Melbourne
October 2022
An evening of celebration to launch two new Post Office Lane projects into orbit- ‘Look Book’ and ‘Sixteen by Nine’. Welcomed with open arms into the innovative Micro-Labs Melbourne space, POL made its kooky modular interiors their own; interweaving framed screen prints, book mountains, video works and colourful posters throughout. Lots of love to Micro-Labs for hosting us, and Temple Brewing for the refreshments. There’ll be more where this came from!
Sixteen by Nine
By Angus Brown
Editioned by Post Office Lane
Screen-printed recreations of incidental abstract colour 16mm frames. CMYK water-based ink on 300gsm Fabriano academia paper, framed in artist-made Victorian Ash frames with a natural bee’s wax finish.
880mm x 750mm
Edition of 3
A heavily process-driven abstraction of incidental video stills captured across a distant summer landscape. Shot on 200D Kodak colour 16mm film stock, through a clockwork driven 1950s B&H 200EE cine camera, this recording was an attempt to dismantle and reload the long expired Kodachrome II film cartridges that this home movie camera once took.
With the pressure plate of the film cartridge not reloaded as tight as it once had been, the abstraction began in-camera as the flickering frames flew through the shutter. Beautifully documenting the shimmering light hitting the film strip, the camera grasped the energy of these vibrating summer scenes in stretched colour, shape and movement.
These curious compositions of indistinguishable light are left open to individual interpretation. But, amongst the vast range of organic distortions, there are beautiful moments of recognition and discovery through familiar form.
A selection of these bounced stills have now been reprinted in a four-layer CMYK screenprinted bitmap image. With the imagery further broken down into its primary pigments, the remaining essence of the images is tested as the interaction of printed dots stacks another level of movement in colour onto an already distant reflection of the scenes that were seen by the camera’s lens... In some sunny season, some time ago. The group of nine selected 16mm stills sit together in a resolved grid; named and set out at the common aspect ratio of 16:9.
