Colour Separation Horses

Merlin Horse [2025]

(6 mins)

Malcolm Le Grice's Berlin Horse (1970) is reimagined for a time of AI-enabled editing software and digital-analogue hybridity. Looping and phasing in Le Grice’s film are replaced with a concern for masking. Digital masks created with the aid of AI facilitate solarised and colour-separated images before ultimately giving way to masks of latex resist applied frame by frame to lengths of 16mm film. It is the animated effect of these masks that produces the 24 beats per second necessary to keep up with Starfarer's music track, GoFast.