Rebecca Jane Arthur speaks to Optics and the Science of Perception Class
Students of the course Optics and the Science of Perception welcomed Scottish visual artist and filmmaker Rebecca Jane Arthur as she introduced one of her films ‘Liberty: an ephemeral statute’ (2020) and unfold her filmmaking process during a class.
‘Liberty: an ephemeral statute’
Super 8mm scanned to digital file, colour, 4:3, stereo, BE/UK/US, English spoken, FR/NL/EN subtitles, 2020, 37 minutes.
Stemming from a personal account of a search for liberation set in the US during the early 70s, Liberty: an ephemeral statute reflects upon post-68 desires for emancipation, emigration, and education through an impressionistic memoir and portrait of the filmmaker’s mother back home in Scotland today.
Rebecca Jane Arthur (1984, Edinburgh, UK) is a visual artist working predominantly with writing and the moving image. Parallel to her artistic practice, Arthur works in Brussels as a producer, writer, copy-editor and translator.