Jeff Frost
Circuit Board Species teaser II, 2015, redux 2024
Single-channel 4K (mastered from 8K) video (color, sound), 01:49
Time-lapse photography, motion control robotics

Think of the sun as the tip of a paintbrush. Then expand that thought to any other point of light, including cities at night, blinking LED lights in a server farm, and the stars. Every composition in this film is created using long exposure photography and physical movements achieved with robotics, repeated thousands of times. The resulting time paintings are then assembled into a cinematic film celebrating the use of technology without flinching from the dark undercurrent of electricity that gives it a neo-noir glow.

Although I began shooting using this technique all the way back in 2012 during Circle of Abstract Ritual, it is not a project that has been fully realized in film form.