Sabrina Gschwandtner

"Scarce Material (lost films)”

2022

Medium: Silver gelatin photograph

Dimensions: 18 9/16 x 18 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches (frame size).

Price: $5000.0

Description: This series utilizes film footage created by women cinema pioneers whose work from the late 1800s - early 1900s is woefully under-recognized. I re-printed footage from their films, sourced from archives around the world, onto black and white 35 mm film stock, and then cut and sewed the footage into configurations based on quilt motifs. This piece is about the films I couldn’t find in any archives. I sewed clear leader and black film into a “tumbling block” quilt pattern, which I think of as building blocks. The women I wrote about on the clear film were the building blocks of film.