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The Body Revealed

 
(1998) 2 min 09 seconds
16mm reversal experimental motion picture
 
“the body revealed” was made in 1997 with a Bolex and 16mm black and white reversal film. O’Brien photographed four nude models, two female and two male, and used only a single 100 foot roll of 16mm reversal film, which lasts approximately 2 minutes and 45 seconds. The film was rewound and re-exposed multiple times according to a detailed plan.

Included in Miranda July’s Joanie 4 Jackie Chainletter “Transformer” in 2007, which was acquired by the Getty Institute in 2017.

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