Christopher Becks

A film of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic adventures

Christopher Becks’ video, Parallax, is converted from richly colored 16mm footage. He addresses the practice of landscape/travel films by presenting scenes that seem to connote wandering, and searching for something.

"How do you find what you don't know you're looking for ?"

Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slow, mechanical movement of a silhouetted form to produce a biting melancholy, as if Becks is mourning the film’s removal from the world it glimpses.

An in-camera improvisation for a barn in Normandy.

A film of non-Euclidean and symbolically authentic adventures

Christopher Becks’ video, Parallax, is converted from richly colored 16mm footage. He addresses the practice of landscape/travel films by presenting scenes that seem to connote wandering, and searching for something.

"How do you find what you don't know you're looking for ?"

Christopher Becks’s Pan of the Landscape uses gorgeous Brakhage-like painting on film to un-Brakhage-like ends: spectacular skies combine with the slow, mechanical movement of a silhouetted form to produce a biting melancholy, as if Becks is mourning the film’s removal from the world it glimpses.

An in-camera improvisation for a barn in Normandy.