Margaret Honda's Color Correction in 35mm

Color is an integral component of filmmaking and one of the foundations for creating a dynamic viewing experience. Color is the principal element of American experimental filmmaker Margaret Honda’s first feature film. Color Correction (2015) is a projected array of colors extracted from the color timing tapes of an unknown and uncredited film, sequenced at a cadence that corresponds to the length of the original film’s shots. To create a completely different feature from the source material, Honda omits the corresponding original film, provoking a sensory journey while allowing space to examine our own (sub)conscious responses to each frame of color. These hues in turn create the film’s structure and content, rather than functioning as a supplemental ingredient.

Programmed in connection to the Academy museum’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Color in Motion: Chromatic Explorations of Cinema, this screening explores not only the phenomenological impact of color on screen, but also technical aspects of filmmaking, its physical material, and the possibilities of creating new filmic narratives through an emphasis on postproduction.

Programmed and note by Hyesung ii and K.J. Relth-Miller.