The Enclave — 2013
16mm infrared film transferred to HD video
39 minutes 25 seconds across six screens
Director / Producer: Richard Mosse
Cinematographer / Editor: Trevor Tweeten
Composer / Sound Designer: Ben Frost
Production Assistant: John Holten
Colourist: Jerome Thelia
16mm processing: Rocky Mountain Film Lab
16mm scanning: Metropolis Film Labs
Audio Visual Installation: Eidotech
The Enclave was produced using a recently discontinued military film technology originally designed in World War II to reveal camouflaged installations hidden in the landscape. This film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. On the threshold of the medium’s extinction, Mosse employed this film to document an ongoing conflict situation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This humanitarian disaster—in which 5.4 million people have died since 1998—is largely overlooked by the mass media. Frequent massacres, human rights violations, and widespread sexual violence remain unaccounted for. In a kind of advocacy of seeing, The Enclave attempts to cast this forgotten tragedy in a new spectrum of light, to make this forgotten humanitarian disaster visible.
A collaboration between photographer Richard Mosse, cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost. Richard Mosse represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.
A collaboration between photographer Richard Mosse, cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost. Richard Mosse represented Ireland at the 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.
