The multi-channel video installations presented in Highly Variable - See Movie: Albert Robinson were created using digital transfers of Albert Robinson’s meticulously filmed documents of his sculptures. Photographed primarily between 1969 and 1974, Robinson’s nearly seven dozen, three minute films were made using the then popular amateur film gauges of Regular and Super 8mm. Wolfson Archives staff edited and layered portions of the digital transfers of fragile original films for these video projections.
Read “All That’s Solid Melts Into Film (PDF)“ an essay written for the exhibition by Contributing Editor for Art Papers, Gean Moreno. View a webcast produced by Miami-Dade TV and featuring Archive Director Don Chauncey discussing Robinson work in detail.
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The Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, housed at the main branch of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, contains one of the largest home movie and amateur film collections in the country.
The Wolfson Archives regularly receive donations of home movies, amateur films and related equipment from all over South Florida and the Nation. Though many of these films are silent, they speak volumes and document our region. Each individual reel is a piece of the story of our history and culture from a very personal perspective. To donate your films, please contact us at 305.375.1505 or info@wolfsonarchive.org
Barron Sherer
Curator/Preservationist
bsherer@wolfsonarchive.org
