Yellow Wallpaper for Lynne Sachs
A film by Daniel Adams
May 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1IerM45S-M&list=PLakENfj060w3NKbar5wBa8qEbQNQC9WvC&index=2
In a Zoom call, Lynne commented that she liked my wallpaper. Not having paid very close attention to it for some time, I decided to make a video or film based upon it. 3 still photographs (one tilted to the left, one to the right and one straight on) are rapidly alternated to give an impression of the pattern starting to come to life. At the end, the wallpaper, with wet paint, was printed onto a very small amount of 35mm film.
The title may evoke thoughts of the famous short story The Yellow Wallpaper, in which a woman suffering from a nervous disorder begins to claim she is hearing voices from within the wallpaper in her room. Undermining this somewhat, the piece is pointedly silent, though the painted film reveals the pattern of the wallpaper interacting with an optical soundtrack.
—Danny Adams, founder and director of How to Enjoy an Experimental Film Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h2eef-26-reverberations-with-lynne-sachs/id1537610354?i=1000550667212)
Demonstrating 19th century attitudes toward women’s mental and physical health, the original Yellow Wallpaper story is considered an important early work of American feminist literature.