A 25-minute, 360 degree expanded cinema installation of Bill Brand’s Pong Ping Pong, presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image at Eberle Studios.
“Pong Ping Pong is a film installation revealing the circular and reciprocating nature of the film medium and activating the space between projector and projection. The film is projected from a custom turntable that moves the entire image back and forth and slowly around 360 degrees. The image is projected onto a 40 foot diameter circle of 24 screens. The subject of the film is a ping pong game. The camera, mounted on the turntable machine, swings back and forth while the entire mechanism slowly moves around and around the table looking in at the game. With the film projected from the center, the space is turned inside out.” -Bill Brand
Preceded by an “indoor garden party” with our own Steven Haines and guests JP Kowalski, Maf, May Wilcher, and Trē Seguritan Abalos in a unique out-the-round sound and movement performance.
Doors at 7:30. It all happens at 8.
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About Bill Brand
Bill Brand is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, public artwork, installations, paintings and works-on-paper have exhibited worldwide in museums, galleries, microcinemas and on television.
Bill Brand is Professor Emeritus at Hampshire College and teaches Film Preservation at New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program. He is co-owner of BB Optics, Inc., a company that specializes in archival film preservation and post-production services.
