Rebecca Jane Arthur speaks to Optics and the Science of Perception Class
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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.