Ann Madigan

E-Mail  jamadigan@eircom.net

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Biography

The work that I have been engaged with in recent years has moved from abstract painting to photography and experimental film. I now create film projections, through a process of combining still photographs with audio; that are presented as a cinematic experience. Occupying a space between photography and film photographic stills capturing frozen moments are manipulated, to create new interpretations of time and motion through the process of filmmaking. Using materials ranging from low-tech cameras e.g. pinhole to digital imaging and computer processes.

Lyrica 4 Is a 4 min. experimental film that explores visual perception.

 

Light in the Window 9min. digital film of abstract and symbolic images, within which audio reveals the embodiment of my 90 year old uncle, my daughter and granddaughter. The past, present, and future is explored and a narrative of trans generational emigration within the family is revealed.

Pinhole Exploration 21min. anti war film explores the soldier’s psychological state of anxiety and fear plus the notion of women waiting, having no control, to feelings of powerlessness, absence loss and death. Pinhole Exploration was also a chemical, technical, photographic and computer based investigation into the materials used in the construction of the six films Contact Print, Scratch Macro, Infra Red, 4x5 Sheet Film and Pin Digital that constitute Pinhole Exploration. The materials utilized in each film reacted to processes in very distinct ways and these reactions generated a platform from which the film evolved.

Play the Game documents Little War  Brian Hand’s Futurist Derby installation in the grounds of Kilkenny Castle. Influenced by the Italian Futurist’s use of photo dynamism, I combined  pinhole images that illustrated  the flowing trajectories of objects in motion together with digital stills to create a 7min film.