Scope BLN
presents
JUDDER
SOLO EXHIBITION BY LUCY ELLIS
July 3 - July 14, 2026
Opening: Friday, July 3 at 06:00 PM
In her solo exhibition Judder, Lucy Ellis explores the tension between acceleration and idleness through 16mm and 35mm film. Presented as a series of moving image works, the exhibition reflects on analogue film as a degenerative medium that is both materially idle and capable of producing rapid motion.
Each frame is a frozen, idle image on the strip, brought into motion by the apparatus, which produces speed, continuity, and progression through rapid succession. Despite its slow labour, material decay, and obsolescence, film generates a seemingly unstoppable velocity from within its own structure. Through flicker, repetition, and velocity, the works sit in this tension between deterioration and speed.
The exhibition displays three video works:
CARS!
Cameraless animation on 35mm, stop motion shot on 16mm
CARS! is constructed through repetition, with over 600 cars hand-painted directly onto 35mm film. Working against the material limits of film, layers of ink accumulate on its impermeable surface to build saturated density. Through this process, the work connects the car, the urban environment, and the film strip itself within cycles of accumulation, repetition, and motion.
Transit
Collaged found 35mm
Transit collages discarded early 2000s 35mm film trailers sourced online after the film industry’s shift from analog to digital projection. By assembling transitional moments (fades, motion blur, slides, and flashes) the work creates a continuous rhythm of flicker and interruption. The physical splices cause the scanner to skip and stutter, transforming smooth cinematic transitions into clicks, jumps, and blur.
Untitled
Stop motion shot on 16mm
Untitled makes use of the variable shutter on a Bolex camera used to create a consistent flicker, blocking light every other frame or so. Still objects are filmed through slow 360 degree pans, isolating them as fixed points while the surrounding image accelerates.