Attending to Anthony McCall\u27s Long Film for Ambient Light

In March 2007, The Teaching and Learning Cinema, an artist group from Sydney, Australia, coordinated by Louise Curham and myself, recreated the conditions for a contemporary experience of Anthony McCall\u27s Long Film for Ambient Light (1975). Long Film for Ambient Light is a work of Expanded Cinema, comprising the bare minimum elements required for film : light, time, a screen, and an audience. Here I discuss some aspects of this recreation, with particular focus on the compilation of an experiential document as a way of understanding how the work affected individuals who encountered it