A standard length for a roll of 16mm film is 100 feet / 30.5 metres. Filmmaker Minjung Kim approaches film as a physical medium, as a body. In a series of works, she explores the relationship between standard film length and duration. Count Footage consists of 100 feet / 30.5 metres of film. The length of the film is the subject of the film and is depicted exactly during the projection. To achieve this, the filmmaker filmed a ‘footage counter’ loaded with a piece of film measuring exactly 1 foot / 40 film frames in length, taped together as a loop. The camera is loaded with a roll of 100 feet of film and captures the passage of 100 revolutions of this film loop in a single shot. The analysis of film length and film duration is completed by displaying the exact number of seconds, feet, frames per second and frames per foot. The projector functions as a linear film counter.
