Kandinsky: A Close Look is a cine-essay focusing on three Kandinsky paintings from 1913, the year in which the artist became fully committed to abstraction.
Each painting is treated separately, using contemporary digital techniques:
| Section 1: 'essay' — a reading of Kandinsky's essay on "Painting with White Border" accompanies a close cinematic examination of the painting. [frame enlargements] |
| Section 2: 'eyetracking'— a collaboration with two eminent vision research scientists, uses eye-tracking technology to investigate how five viewers, both amateur and professional, look at the painting "Small Pleasures" [frame enlargements] |
| Section 3: 'synesthesia'— composer Dean Drummond was commissioned to write and record a score for a small ensemble to accompany an animated exploration of the painting "Black Lines." Drummond's composition is based on the color-sound associations proposed by Kandinsky in his writings. [frame enlargements] |
