Picture this: You’re in a room, painted white. There are two large movie screens – regular old movie theater size movie screens – erected on the floor, roughly perpendicular to one another. As you enter the room you’re facing the screens; to exit the room you must cross either between or behind the screens (I walked behind).
Projected on either screen are two asynchronous shots of the same elephant, doing elephant like things – getting up, lying down, walking -- in a room painted white, very much like the room painted white in which you are now standing. As a result of the fact that the movie screens are movie theater size large, the elephant is big ass elephant large. As big as, well, an elephant.
This is what Douglas Gordon does (along with some other very cool and entirely different kinds of things with film). There are some brief clips from the installation on the MoMA website, but it doesn’t do the experience justice.
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