Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick
Quantified Variability (2024)
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Filmed on Fogo Island, Newfoundland Quantified Variability is one of two parallel films that use the same footage edited in different ways. Quantified Variability is a sequence of shots that expose the beauty of an isolated location confronting the climate emergency. The film has been subtly manipulated to provide a disturbing shift in the color balance of the footage. The soundtrack is comprised of recordings of various production and logistical processes. It is entirely sonically abstract. At the outset of the film it is fairly clear that you are listening to technical procedures, but as time passes the sound is manipulated to such an extent that the source becomes elusive-sitting between the larsen effect, the polyphonic and the primordial.