KENNETH LAMBERT
Zero Aperture
Single Channel HD Video 30fps, 16bpc 10 mins 20 secs 2022
Screened as part of Lumière at Mount Vic Flicks vintage cinema, Mt Victoria
Zero Aperture is a singular cinematic experience inspired by the Star Gate sequence from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The journey created by Kenneth Lambert is distinguished by a single unbroken camera move that hurtles the viewer through an infinite landscape comprised of evocative soundscapes and fractured colour fields. The visual experience is driven by a visceral film score created from the artist's electronic performances and sound libraries, which echoes the existential tone set by its inspiration. The work takes its title from the artist's initial creative process, which captured the original Star Gate sequence without a lens, hence, ‘zero aperture'. A technical achievement for the artist at this point in his career, combining multiple large-scale digital technologies and film techniques to create one extraordinary cinematic event.
Kenneth Lambert’s experimental practice embraces disintegrated matter and the inexorable expressions that reflect the human condition. Lambert’s conceptual approach captures the contemporary zeitgeist by transposing themes found in science to illuminate current social issues and rising anxieties of our time. At the intersection of technology and the humanities, the artist’s investigations have led to works that utilise particle acceleration to relate to climate-change and data translation technology to investigate digital autonomy. Lambert’s cross-disciplinary practice encompasses digital, film, expanded painting and installation.
