Screening of One Mile Film

High Line Art presents a special outdoor screening of One Mile Film, a new feature-length HD video by Los Angeles-based artist Jennifer West. The video has been transferred to a high-definition format from a 35mm filmstrip which was part of West’s High Line Art Performance on Wednesday, September 13, 2012.

For her High Line Art Performance, West adhered a one-mile-long 35mm celluloid filmstrip to the entire length of the High Line’s pathway for one day. She invited the public to walk on, touch, draw, and make their mark on the filmstrip. The distressed filmstrip was then spliced together and transferred to high-definition video resulting in the 58 minute, 40 second new work. The film features images shot by West and her crew in June 2012 of rooftops, the New York City skyline, and other locations typically not accessible to the public. Sections of the film also feature two New York-based Parkour traceurs, Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez, performing in restricted areas in New York City, including the final section of the High Line at the Rail Yards. Visible throughout the video are markings from the High Line Art Performance, including shoe and hand prints, written messages, sand paper marks, drawings, stroller wheel tracks, animations, and etchings from the pathway’s surface.

CREDITS
One Mile Film, 2012
58 minutes, 40 seconds, 35mm negative and film print transferred to high-definition video, no sound

One Mile Film (5,280 feet of 35mm film negative and print taped to the mile-long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors – the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip – it was driven on by baby strollers and trash can wheels and was traced by art students – people wrote messages on the film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the film emulsion lines drawn down much of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers – the walk way surfaces of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the film; filmed images shot by Peter West – filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez – running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest – film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers), 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds

FILM PRODUCTION
Peter West, Cinematographer; Frank Larson, Assistant Camera; Jordan Benke, High Line Art Project Manager; Deb Berman, Production Coordinator; Jon Huron, Production Assistant

FILM TAPERS
Cecilia Alemani, Deb Berman, Elena Bernstein, Leila Farhood, Bridget Gramling, Erika Harvey, Carole Honig, Tom Morris, Kirsten Nicholas, Marisa Rendina, Maggie Romano, Ashley Tickle, Jennifer West

FILM GREETERS
Elena Bernstein, Irene Buchman, Jan Farber, Leila Farhood, Andrea Garcia, Claudia Gerlach-Fohrbeck, Bridget Gramling, Annik La Farge, Tom Morris, Kirsten Nicholas, Maria Padavano, Ye Sul Park, Barbara Proctor, Marisa Rendina, Gary Roth, Magdalyn Segale, Judith Stein, Jimmy Wood

SPLASH DANCE PARTICIPANTS
4th and 5th grade students from PS3 Charrette Elementary School NYC

FILM ROLLERS
Deb Berman, Jordan Benke, Kirsten Nicholas, Maggie Romano, Corey Snide, Jennifer West, Stephanie Yee

SPLICING ASSISTANTS IN LOS ANGELES
Mariah Csepanyi, Chris Hanke and Jeffrey Kool.