Esther’s blog

Seth Rogen, Danny McBride, Elijah Wood…

This should be a full length movie. What a great cast.
What a great use of unique film. It shows a different perspective on the meaning of pink. Photographer Richard Mosse used Kodak’s Aerochrome film to capture the conflict in Congo. “Discontinued last year, the film is particularly sensitive to infra-red light, rather than to the usual visible spectrum of colors registered by traditional film. Since foliage reflects infra-red while buildings don’t, the US Army used it during the Vietnam War to detect and reveal hidden soldiers. “I wanted to export this technology to a harder situation, to up-end the generic conventions of calcified mass-media narratives and challenge the way we’re allowed to represent this forgotten conflict,” says Mosse. “I wanted to confront this military reconnaissance technology, to use it reflexively in order to question the ways in which war photography is constructed.”