Lucy Raven

In her artist lecture, Lucy Raven shows how Hollywood exports its raw material—in this case images—to south-east Asia where they are further processed and edited. Beginning with the disaster film, 2012 (2009) which was recently successfully converted from 2D into 3D, Raven examines how landscapes, places and stereoscopic spaces are represented three dimensionally using new technology and the corresponding infrastructure. As a rule, the studios for this post-production work are to be found in India or China. There, the films undergo frame by frame digital processing in such a way that they simulate the gaze of a second eye. It is also possible that the new film industry boom that enables this signalizes the end of Hollywood as the home of the blockbuster. Raven’s lecture develops a discursive forensics that makes the complexity and contingency of developments in cinema comprehensible by making reference to the history of animated filmmaking, the film industry in general and the most recent shift in film making towards postproduction. In addition to her own film material, Lucy Raven also includes archive material by Max Fleischer, the Jam Handy Organization and others in the lecture.

This event is part of the exhibition
and Materials and Money and Crisis.

Lucy Raven lives in New York. Exhibitions/Festivals (selection):
Berlinale, Forum Expanded, Berlin (2013); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012); Whitney Biennial, New York (2012).