The worked of Anthony Mccal 
Landscape for Fire(1972) performance, the film Landscape for fire. It has remained a score on paper for a distinct reason. Once the performance begins, it must be never end. It may burn but it must not disappear.
Line Describing a Cone(1973) became something of a cul
t film. "The viewer watches the film by standing with his or her back toward what would normally be the screen, and looking along the beam toward the projector itself. The film begins as a coherent pencil of light, like a laser beam, and develops through thirty minutes into a complete, hollow cone."
Long Film for Four projectors(1974)
"It is the first film to exist solely in real, three-dimensional space. The film exists only in the present: the moment of projection. It refers to nothing beyond this real time, the space is real, not referential. No longer is one viewing position as good as any other. For this film, every viewing position presents a different aspect: he or she can, indeed needs, to move around relative to the slowly emerging light form. This is radically different from the traditional viewing situation."
Long Film for Ambient Light(1975) The radicality of his procedure pushed him to brake with traditional cinematic equipment and concentrate less on the physical process and more on the presuppositions film as an art activity. The artist hung a simple light bulb in a loft whose windows were covered by sheets of paper. On one wall a digram was posted describing the cycles of the two light sources ( the constant stream of electrical light and the fluctuation of natural daylight and darkness).
The lexical field of Mccall's sculpture belongs fully to the cognitive system. First with film, a type of score to be scrolled in front of a projector and now with computers, the artist has opted for an art at the boundaries of materiality.
Doubling Back (2003)
Breath (2004)
Turning Under (2004)
Between You and I (2006)
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