Deep Time Cinematography
Deep Time Cinematography
Deep Time Cinematography is a site-specific conceptual artwork by Jonathon Keats that will create a 10-frame zoetrope movie of the Hollywood Hills over the next 10,000 years. The work utilizes a handcrafted pinhole camera, installed on the third-floor escalator landing of BCAM, to capture 10 millennia-spanning portraits of Los Angeles's evolving landscape. Through its radical temporality, Deep Time Cinematography is Keats’s powerful call to the imagination and to action, raising the question: What can we do now to make sure this 10,000-year documentary is one that we would want future generations to see? Keats was the recipient of a LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant in 2015.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation and Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, with generous annual funding from Tanya Fileva, Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Justin Lubliner, Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Maggie Tang, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Jonathon Keats, Millennium Camera Prototype, 2015, photo © 2020 Sibila Savage Photography
- Sept 14, 2025–Ongoing
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Outdoor
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by The David & Meredith Kaplan Foundation and Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, with generous annual funding from Tanya Fileva, Mary and Daniel James, Bert Levy Fund, Justin Lubliner, Alfred E. Mann Charities, Kelsey Lee Offield, Maggie Tang, Lenore and Richard Wayne, and Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto.
Jonathon Keats, Millennium Camera Prototype, 2015, photo © 2020 Sibila Savage Photography