Private Project

Scattered Light

Synopsis: Scattered Light takes us through a process of image generation paralleled in the process of mirror gilding. Silver nitrate adheres to sensitized glass and produces a mirror in ways similar to the silver nitrate found in photo-chemical emulsion. Through sound composition, this dual production of images adheres in time.

Format: Scattered Light is an expanded cinema performance involving dual projection, hand-gilded mirror sculptures, and live sound processing. The film is meant to be viewed in-person, with the artists carrying out the performance in front of a live audience.

  • Nicolas Cadena
    Director
    So That Images Can Be Made, Three Solar Exercises
  • Joshua Mastel
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 4, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    16MM
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • The DiMenna Center For Classical Music
    New York City
    United States
    March 16, 2024
    World Premiere
Director Biography - Nicolas Cadena, Joshua Mastel

Nicolas "Nico" Cadena is a Colombian-born, U.S.-based artist and educator. His work spans analog and digital forms and has been exhibited at venues including Millennium Film Workshop, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, and more. Alongside his artistic practice, Nico is an educator, serving as an adjunct instructor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and at the Brooklyn-based cinema arts nonprofit Mono No Aware. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Moving Image at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Joshua Alvarez Mastel writes instrumental and electronic music which has been performed internationally by Yarn/Wire, ekmeles, ensemble mosaik, Schallfeld Ensemble, and others. In addition to composing concert music, he makes sound pieces using field recordings, foley objects, motorized hardware, and digital sound, often for live performance. He currently lives in New York City, where he is a doctoral candidate in music composition at Columbia University.

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