Carnival of Shadows (2015)

Ernie Gehrs largescale multiscreen video installation CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre cinema a playful exercise in movingimage graphics and an extension of the artists interest in the abstraction texture and rhythms of visual material Its source is an early20thcentury shadowgraph toy which used paper print films in the form of sequential silhouette drawings that were brought to life as they passed before a stroboscopic screen Gehrs silent digital video adaptation transforms five original paper subjects all issued in France c 190005 At the Circus Carnival in Nice John Sellerys Tour of the World Street Scenes and Gullivers Travels