Upstage - 2011

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Outdoor version: video projection, Tyvek screen, ABS pipe support 
Indoor version: video projection, velvet curtains
Duration: 2 minutes, 21 seconds with audio
Dimensions:  Outdoor version - 2.7 x 3.9 x 5m / Indoor version - 3 x 3.9 x 5.4m
Photo credit: David Miller & Petra Mala Miller

A theatre set created from a sequence in Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. The spotlight that obscures Buster’s action allows the viewer to imagine & project their own performance onto the stage. 

Exhibition History:
2012 ‘Cyclorama’ Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Lethbridge);  2012 ‘Cyclorama’ Visual Arts Centre of Clarington (Bowmanville);  2011 'Upstage' Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film (Durham)

Ryan Doherty: "Cyclorama". Lethbridge: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 2013
Gil McElroy: "Lyla Rye: Cyclorama". Espace Magazine. Issue 103/104, pp 67-68, 2013
Tony Massett: "Upstage", Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film. July 2011