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An abstract pattern against a black background

Christmas Tree Stand

Christmas Tree Stand

Personalised instruments are used to transform loops of pure black and white frames into an immersive riot of perceptual phenomenon in colour, motion and sound. The multi-projector performances of filmmaker Bruce McClure open up a world of hallucinatory retinal pyrotechnics. For the UK premier of Christmas Tree Stand, Bruce will employ four adapted 16mm projectors, the motors modified, brass grids retro-fitted between lens and gate.

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A stroboscopic and intense sensory overload of flashing abstract forms, cut to ribbons by modified projectors. You’re met with a white strobing circle pulsing on screen and slowly transformed as additional, overlapping projectors create strange halo’s and spheres, odd 3D expansions and contractions. As more projectors are added the image is shredded under a beating grid, colour and form thrumming in front of your eyes until, as the last projector dims and you’re left in the dark, crazy blue tendrils follow your gaze, after-images burned on the retina like a delicate coda to Bruce’s performances.

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A circle of light on a projection screen with a pale halo around it

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

An abstract pattern against a black background

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Pattern resolving into a grid of squares within a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A vague red glow on a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A pale red glow spotted with purple dots against a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red glow spotted with purple dots

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red glow spotted with purple and orange dots filling a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Blurry orange circle of blurry dots of purple orange and red on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Orange tortoise shell like pattern of coloured shapes

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Purple white and orange 'kaleidoscope' of shapes on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red and purple shapes converging in a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Bruce McClure standing by a mixer and several projectors

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Bruce McClure by a mixer and four projectors, a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Portrait of Bruce McClure standing in a blue shirt, hands in shirt pouch

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A circle of light on a projection screen with a pale halo around it

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

An abstract pattern against a black background

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Pattern resolving into a grid of squares within a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A vague red glow on a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

A pale red glow spotted with purple dots against a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red glow spotted with purple dots

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red glow spotted with purple and orange dots filling a projection screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Blurry orange circle of blurry dots of purple orange and red on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Orange tortoise shell like pattern of coloured shapes

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Purple white and orange 'kaleidoscope' of shapes on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Red and purple shapes converging in a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Bruce McClure standing by a mixer and several projectors

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Bruce McClure by a mixer and four projectors, a circle of light on a screen

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

Portrait of Bruce McClure standing in a blue shirt, hands in shirt pouch

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre