Esther Urlus
2021Deep Red
Esther Urlus
Dense, addictive, multi-pass, colour printing with trees shorn of their leaves transformed into thirty six layer deep technicolour. Deep Red is an investigation into additive colour mixing on film. Handmade by a d-i-y silkscreen printing technique. Starting point are on black and white hi-con filmed trees shorn of their leaves. As if they're the reminiscent of branches seen flashing past in the night from the back seat of a car. Transformed into thirty six layer deep technicolour.
Deep Red
Konrad & Kurfurst
Esther Urlus
The home-brewed emulsion is a fragile metaphor for the heroism of Konrad and his horse Kurfurst during the Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936. Falling from his horse, he became a national hero, only to become an anti-hero when overtaken by history. Made by consulting technical publications from early cinema and photographic experiments.
Konrad & Kurfurst
Rode Molen
Esther Urlus
Rode Molen (Red Mill) is a research into motion picture printing techniques. Starting point and inspiration for the film are the mill paintings of Piet Mondriaan, especially Rode Molen. In the film color is created by multiple exposures through different masks during printing. Depending what developing process is used the colors mix in two ways: additive or subtractive.
Red Mill
A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking
Esther Urlus, Josephine Ahnelt
16mm filmstock is the starting point for A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking, for which Josephine Ahnelt and Esther Urlus set out to prove that vegan film emulsions are possible, replacing gelatine with PVA. The result is a visceral, textural image from the past and the future.
A Venture into Vegan Filmmaking
You are not alone
Esther Urlus
“My 69 sec. as part of the 69 sec project - various ultra short 16mm films made by the artists of Filmwerkplaats (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). Each film is 69 seconds long (thats 15meter/50ft. of 16mm, a full Russian JOMO film developing tank). The duration of 69 seconds on 16mm was the only limitation, as each film was created from diverse perspectives, experimentations and concepts.” — Esther Urlus
You Are Not Alone
studie voor een veldslag
Esther Urlus
Using a special printing technique, Esther Urlus makes the film images look hand-drawn. She was inspired by Late-Medieval sketches of falling horses and studies for spectacular battle scenes. The historical pastel colours are based on the Medieval 'Epiphanie medicorum', a urine colour wheel used for medical diagnoses.
Study for a Battle
