Knight's Rest

3D film with stereo sound (Collaboration: OpenEndedGroup)

2013 · 5m

Knight’s Rest is a meditative encounter with the Gardner Museum’s Spanish Chapel. The film derives from a single camera movement that moved into and then back out of the space in a pattern resembling that of the knight’s move in chess. Advanced software analysis of the frames generated a 3D reconstruction of the space, so that the camera movement could be shifted to angles otherwise unreachable – for instance, looking down into the small chapel from above the ceiling.

The structural and emotional flow is re-defined by the soundscape - a contemporary take on Domenico Scarlatti sonatas, composed and performed by Jaroslaw Kapuscinski on a piano in the Museum.

Commission / Grants

  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Premiere

  • 2013

    • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Presentations

  • 2016

    • University of Chicago, Conference – Seeing Movement, Being Moved An Exploration of the Moving Camera
  • 2013

    • New York MOMA
    • Center for Art and Media Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
    • Rome Film Festival, Italy