The Image of Happiness: The First Scene
After the invention of photography, the development of film devices, catalyzed by Muybridge's The Horse in Motion, led to the birth of film in 1888 with Le Prince's device in the Roundhay Garden Scene. This work explores illusions, continuity and spacetime in between, attempting an audiovisual experiment to connect images of death with the "First Scene."
* This film contains lighting that may affect photosensitive viewers.
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Motoko and Ha Sangcheol’s The Image of Happiness: The First Scene borrows the records from the first silent movie in history, Roundhay Garden Scene (1888), which came about in the late 19th century from a collective yearning to capture how the world moves. The short silent film, running 2 seconds and consisting of 20 frames, captures four people going around in a circle in a garden. The Image of Happiness: The First Scene optically dissects the original and circular images of the short silent film and restructures them. In this process, the film images are reborn not as a model of camera obscura projected in a dark theater but as a praxinoscope model that plays as a continuing apparition on cylinders and mirrors. (KIM Byeonggyu)
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HA Sangcheol⎜hasc.default@gmail.com
Motoko
HA Sangcheol
