Known for his experimentations with film and video, Scott Billings makes cinematic experience new again. For A Risky Jump, a specially made mechanical rig projects a slow motion video of the artist falling through a trapdoor in his studio floor. Billings’s artwork literally moves the moving image down the gallery wall where the artist lands safely at the viewer’s feet. Suggesting the inherent pitfalls and pratfalls of an artist’s life, Billings’s captivating artwork hovers dreamlike between stillness and motion.

Image credit: Still from Scott Billings's video A Risky Jump (2015).