MRT (2014). Film still.
Single channel video. 5 min. HD. 16:9. Color. Stereo sound.
An aged psychologist sits before the camera. She seems to be speaking.
MRT confronts the viewer with the beating sound of an MRI scanner observing a brain. Actualizing the potential relations between psychology and neuroscience, between machinic and human, it asks: can an MRI scanner be a therapist?
With Hester Renouf
DIRECTOR, CINEMATOGRAPHER & EDITOR Jacob Schill
MEDIUM Short film
LENGTH 5 mins
SOUND Stereo
ASPECT RATIO 16:9
RESOLUTION 1920 X 1080
MRT (2014). Film still.
MRT (2014). Film still.
MRT (2014). Film still.
fMRI or MRI is a radiological technique measuring brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow. During the scanning process the characteristic pounding and mechanically knocking sound is produced as a result of changes in the scanner's magnetic field. fMRI is increasingly being used to observe and understand the human mind. It plays a major part in the current project of mapping the neural correlates of consciousness.
WRITER, DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHER Jacob Schill
CAST Hester Renouf
Exhibition views: Frölunda Kulturhus (2015)
