In Invisible Film Melik Ohanian projects Peter Watkin’s film Punishment Park onto the Californian desert landscape El Mirage, where it was shot in 1971. Highly controversial at the time, and banned in the USA for over 25 years, the film is here absorbed by the infinite landscape and only the sound remains.
Melik Ohanian shows this film in the place it was filmed and the site of the original story, the El Mirage desert in California. Ohanian has both image and sound projected into the desert landscape, without a screen and at full length, as the sun goes down. The drama of the original material can still be experienced on the sound track, while the slow change of light over the landscape creates moments of quiet memory. It's playing on our visual memory.
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