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Extraordinary 10 Screen Film Installation About Trailblazing Abolitionist Launches in NY

29/03/2019
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Slough, UK
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Cinelab London processes and scans 35mm film for striking 'Lessons of the Hour' series by Issac Julien
Award-winning British installation artist and renowned filmmaker Isaac Julien, CBE has created a ten screen film installation 'Lessons Of The Hour: Frederick Douglass' on the incredible history on the slavery abolitionist's life. Commissioned by the Metro Pictures Gallery in New York, the exhibition will run until 13th April 2019. 

Frederick Douglass was the visionary African American abolitionist and freed slave; he was the most famous anti-slavery and freedom fighter in US history. Frederick Douglas who was also the most photographed man of the 19th century. The exhibition features on the issues of social injustice that shaped his life.  


In the films, the character of Douglass interacts with important women in his life, his first wife Anna Murray, a black woman who died in 1882, his second wife, the white suffragist Helen Pitts, British abolitionists Anna and Ellen Richardson, who helped raise money to free him when he escaped slavery. Douglass also travelled through the UK giving hundreds of lectures. 

Isaac Julien worked alongside the scholar Celeste-Marie Bernier, a Douglass expert at the University of Edinburgh, to compose what he calls 'tableaux vivants'. These 'tableaux vivants' give detail and context to some of Douglass’ most important speeches, 'Lessons of the Hour', and 'What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?'.  

Isaac Julien created the installation using both 35mm colour film as well as 4k digital. Visitors can also see many early photographs documenting  Douglass’ life. 

Shot on Kodak stock, Cinelab London supported the project and completed 35mm TK and Final Scans for the tableaux vivants.


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