Gerry McCulloch • THE FUTURE OF CINEMATOGRAPHY

That Which Transpires

Transpires anticipates the future of media on technological, political and aesthetic planes. 

Participants are filmed silently engaging with others from inside their intimate space, using a hidden arrangement of mirrors to foreground the miniscule pre-conscious communications that spontaneously occur at lightning velocity beneath the binary layers of likes and dislikes upon which we habitually define ourselves. 

The artwork facilitates the merging of personal inner-space with the inner-space of ‘strangers’ via 360-degree projection-mapping and immersive sound. In triggering face-to-face conversations that take place without words, it highlights some of the ways in which we were already socially distant before lockdown.

While the world was abiding by the 2m social distancing rule, m2 Gallery in Peckham ‘gave back to the street’ by exhibiting elements of Transpires as a 24/7 public-facing window-gallery exhibition called Pause throughout April and May 2020.

By situating itself in the realm of the un-thought known, Transpires functions as an antidote to the politics of difference based on inequality. Immersing in Transpires hastens an integrated future that celebrates difference as interconnected, not other.

Individual films are best viewed on a large screen.

Gerry McCulloch is Head of Cinematography, Film Editing and Sound Design on the MA in Filmmaking at Goldsmiths, University of London.