in potentia

In this 2008 series I take the first proto-films from Edison, Lumiere, LePrince, et al and pixel-splice them into one integrated image.

Pixel-splicing is a software technique I devised that comprehensively integrates all frames of a proto-film into an image. As a result, the image contains content information from every frame. This is different from a more traditional photoshop approach of layering the frames over each other and applying a filter algorithm.

It’s as if I collapsed the 2-dimensional structure of a film (time and space) into 1-dimension (just space).