The course “Hybrids” was a spacial exploration of the visuals of the film “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock. I followed my interest in the art of movie sets, the special qualities and ambience. I took inspiration from the matte paintings that were used as background behind fake walls to give the impression of depth. The element of transparency also kept recurring in my interests with my one-minute site, how light entered through a window and then reflected to the other side of the bedroom.
This element also recurs with the art of the matte paintings on glass used in the making of many Hitchcock films. I looked to decor models from the 19th century to create spatiality that is changeable. I wanted to discover how each eye angle can obtain a different interesting and imaginative view of the spaces from the movie Vertigo. I brought together the different surfaces of Hitchcock’s
spaces into a new set that can be viewed from all sides, joining multiple rooms together so the eye can travel through them. This can be seen as a spacial collage of interiors, scattered across a surface. The glass plates are placed perpendicular to each other to allow the eye to see only one of the spaces at a time. But when circling the installation, a new comprehensive space is formed, an amalgamation of Hitchcock’s scenery of the film.
I adapted the size of the glass plates to the fragment of the space. When viewed from the front, the image of the space remains the same. The cut-outs are sometimes filled, not filled or partially filled depending on the distance of the object. The transparency of the model’s base also allows the model to be viewed from below. My work concludes my experimentation with the idea of “the matte painting”
on glass and the depth and variety it brings to images that it creates. The slightest rotation of the camera in this set creates new perspectives and perceptions of the space. Closed walls open up, while others close off or become hidden. This way I create a set that, in contrary to Hitchcock’s set, takes advantage of the changing and accidental, as opposed to the static and planned.
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