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<h3>Film Stills</h3>
John Kieltyka<br>
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Have you ever looked at a piece of film up close? You can see all 
the scratches and dirt that create the mesmerizing, moving texture 
we notice when the screen goes blank.
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This texture has come to signify reality, authenticity, truth. We
see it in car commercials, music videos and print ads. "Trust us. This 
is the real deal..."
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But what if it's not? What if it never existed?
<br><br>
I wanted to see if this type of familiarity could be manufactured. I 
used old family photos, tourist slides and my own miscellaneous pictures 
as source material. Over these I imposed scratches and stains scanned from 
various weathered surfaces. In some cases, simply putting dust and 
fingerprints on the glass of the scanner worked wonders.
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The next step was putting "subtitles" on several of the pieces. The 
trick to this seems to have been to create some sort of textual non 
sequitur. This created the filmic sense that something had preceded the 
moment, and that something would follow.
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The first time I showed these large prints, several people asked 
me what movie particular "stills" had been taken from. "I know I've 
seen that movie before. What was the name of it?...."
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I explained that this was the idea; the pieces had been designed to be recognizable, although they were based on nothing a viewer could possibly have seen in a theatre.
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These photos were eventually shown in Los Angeles, as part of a group 
show of Seattle artists at Post gallery. The exhibit garnered a "Pick 
of the Week" review in the LA Weekly. In it, the esteemed art critic 
Peter Frank was quite generous, writing of the exhibiting artists 
that "each displays technical mastery, wit and poignancy."
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When describing these photos, however, Mr. Frank wrote 
that "John Kieltyka blows up frames from found film 
footage, scratches, subtitles and all."
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How perfect! I was trying to illustrate the idea that, 
in the digital age, you can't believe everything you see. 
And Mr. Frank reminded his readers that you can't believe 
everything you read in a newspaper.
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-John F. Kieltyka







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