Michael John Whelan
Video Installation
Film
Photography
Objects
Paper & Sound
Info
News
Frontier
Now the shadows I measure
An echo and a shadow
Mercer
Baribal
The sun shone on the
nothing new

Reprieve
A Perfect Circle
Assembly
Kindred
Clearing
Since
The Memoirs of a Madman
And penance is the play
Cathedral
Cathedral
2005
single channel video, colour, silent
24:00 min
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This video begins with very minimal visual imagery. After some time information begins to reveal itself: this is a single take of a very large autobahn bridge in rural Germany which was hidden by morning mist. Recorded in real time, the rising sun evaporates the mist, slowly revealing a portrait of the bridge with the constant passing of the cars, which appear small from the camera position.