[Frameworks] "The Toxic Camera" query

[Heath Iverson]

Dear Frameworkers,

I'm a doctoral candidate working on contemporary British artists' cinema.
At the moment I'm doing some research on Jane and Louise Wilson's "The
Toxic Camera," an installation which, in part, commemorates the nuclear
accident at Chernobyl. The installation is framed as a response to Vladimir
Shevchenko's film, "Chernobyl: A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks". Filmed in
the immediate aftermath of the accident, Shevchenko's film was damaged by
the ambient radiation--leaving the film's emulsion visibly pockmarked by
the collision with decaying atomic particles. At various points, the
Wilson's digital video seems to simulate the material damage in the
Shevchenko film--sometimes literally mimicking a pocked marked emulsion,
other times apparently "translating" this analogue damage into other
digital distortions in the image.

My question: does anyone know how these digital effects were technically
achieved? Obviously, there are all kinds of digital filters that emulate a
"film look," but I would like to know exactly what the Wilson's process was
in production of their video's effects. Perhaps someone has their contact
information?

A secondary question: Can anyone point me to any other films in which the
emulsion registers non-light electromagnetic energy, that is, radiation
outside the visible spectrum. I can think of certain films that
intentionally make use x-ray photography, but I'd be interested in other
examples, especially in accidental instances.

Best wishes,
Heath
-- 
Heath Iverson
PhD Candidate in Film Studies
University of St Andrews
99 North Street
St. Andrews, KY16 9AD
Scotland, UK
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