https://vimeo.com/1175296119?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci
KISS 9 HOUR FOREPLAY is a durational video installation projected outdoors onto a brick wall. The work depicts the artist and another individual slowly moving toward each other to kiss.
Beginning after dark and unfolding over the course of nine hours, the piece ends at sunrise—just before the figures make contact. The conclusion is left open and unresolved, inviting the viewer to interpret what happens next.
The animation was created on Adobe Premiere. By unchecking Uniform Scale, moving the shifting the anchor point along the Y axis, and then manipulating the Scale Width.
There was a challenge in exporting a 9-hour long video. Adobe After Effects has a composition length limit of 3 hours, so this had to be created on Adobe Premiere. Exporting the video with default settings would have resulted in an enormous file size as well as render time.
Since the motion in the video occurs over such a long duration, special export setting can be used to save time. These settings would absolutely destroy a normal video but for this special case, they work just fine:
Media Encoder still took 1.5h to render this video. An alternate solution to this could have been to use code. Instead of rendering a complete piece, one could simply use computation to move two images toward each other over the duration.
To avoid the MadMapper watermark, I tried using After Effects but discovered there was a composition length limit of 3 hours. I then tried VPT but couldn’t figure out how to play the video. I also unsuccessfully tried mapmap, discovering the development had discontinued. So I defaulted back to the free version of MadMapper effectively giving them a free 9-hour watermark billboard in NYC.
Projection Setup
Documentation Setup