Winchester (2002)

• 75%
• 2002
• Jeremy Blake

Combines static 16mm historical photographs of the famous Winchester house, drawings, and laborious digital manipulation to convey a psychological portrait of the famous San Jose landmark. Accompanied by a moody soundtrack, the piece opens with a black-and-white shot of the architectural facade. Superimposed over the house, the silhouette of a gunfighter fills the frame, alluding to the Winchester legacy. As the film unfolds, both mansion and rifleman are eclipsed by veils of saturated color and kinetic abstractions. Painterly shapes resembling gunshot wounds morph into Rorschach–like inkblots and back again into rifle–bearing specters.