# Heavens

> Looking for answers

- Canonical URL: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/
- Year: 2025
- Medium and tools: Moving Image, 16mm Film
- Pathways: [Material Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/material-machines.md)
- Media: 4 images, 1 video
- Artist: Derrick Schultz

## About this work

4min, digital video from 16mm elements

Dedicated to Betty Gabriel (and Tomonari Nishikawa)

Music: Intro by Guy Lawrence

Filmed in two parts: in Aspen, Colorado the day after my grandmother’s passing, and in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania the weekend of her funeral. All scenes were created in camera using laserprinted mattes.

Screenings: [Video Musics](https://www.not-nowhere.org/on/video-musics-derrick-schultz) (Solo screening at not/nowhere, London, August 2026)

## Media

Videos cannot be watched by text agents; each entry gives its alt text, caption, Vimeo title and duration, and a description of the video.

### 1. Video `clouds-broken-up-into-geometric-shapes`
- Description: Clouds broken up into geometric shapes
- Caption: Clouds broken up into geometric shapes
- Source: Vimeo video 1150769557
- Vimeo title: Heavens (2025, 4min)
- Duration: 3 min 55 s
- Video description: A 4-minute film from 2025, digital video from 16mm elements, filmed in Aspen, Colorado and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; all scenes were created in camera. Dedicated to Betty Gabriel (and Tomonari Nishikawa). Music: "Intro" by Guy Lawrence.
- Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/1150769557
- View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/?media=clouds-broken-up-into-geometric-shapes

### 2. Diptych `diptych-000000016`
- Image `000000016`
  - Alt text: Clouds appear in three vertical bands, lens flares appear in two
  - View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/?media=000000016
- Image `000000208`
  - Alt text: Clouds appar in a 3x3 checkerboard pattern; a lens flare blows through the center square
  - View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/?media=000000208

### 3. Diptych `diptych-000000332`
- Image `000000332`
  - Alt text: Clouds appar in a 3x3 checkerboard pattern; black alternates in the checkerboard
  - View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/?media=000000332
- Image `000000347`
  - Alt text: Trees appear inside a lens barrel
  - View on the page: https://artificial-images.com/project/heavens-clouds-mattes-film/?media=000000347

## External links

- [Video Musics](https://www.not-nowhere.org/on/video-musics-derrick-schultz)

## Related

### Pathways

- [Material Machines](https://artificial-images.com/pathways/material-machines.md): Digital systems returned to film, paper, plotting, and handmade image-making.

### Tags

Moving Image, 16mm Film

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