Margaret Honda

Margaret Honda (born in 1961, San Diego) is a Los-Angeles based artist and experimental filmmaker. Honda is interested in the materials and mechanics of analog motion picture production rather than its capacity for telling stories, and she uses existing structures and environmental conditions as the basis for her interventions. In her Film series she works with cinema lighting gels, which come in manufactured sets in a range of colors and tones and typically serve to adjust the color temperature of a given scene. Identical in size, the gels function as film frames, and each side of the skylight forms a reel of film. Instead of a projector, the sun provides light while visitors lend motion to the work, frame by frame, as they pass through the space. Moviegoers typically sit still, in the dark, and watch a single film from beginning to end. In this instance, the viewers are in motion, the space itself is full of light, and the films can be viewed more or less at once—forwards or backwards. The full duration of the installation functions as an extended single screening, open-ended and unrepeatable.