"Legerdemain"- 16mm, sound, 7 minutes, 2010

"Legerdemain" addressed the relationship of magicians and early cinema. Magicians played an important role in disseminating cinematic technology as they used the cinematograph in their acts and brought their spectacles to far reaching audiences around the globe. Legerdemain, meaning sleight-of hand, used shadowgraphs to create enchanting optical illusions. "Legerdemain" employed several types of shadows produced through images including elaborate Indonesian and Chinese Shadow puppets as well as simple bold shadow figures made using transparencies from intricate stencils that were hand-made by San Diego artist and projectionist Michael Proft. The Cinematograph (cine projector) melds with live-shadow-play interaction. The train was largely responsible for bringing moving images to audiences during the early years of cinema and serves as a propeller of ideas through space.