89 Seconds at Alcázar

'89 Seconds at Alcázar', is a fluid choreography, bringing together an ensemble of visual atmosphere, performance and process, inspired by the Western masterpiece 'Las Meninas' (Maids of Honour) painted in 1656, by the Spanish painter Diego Velasquez. Sussman's interpretation of the painting that inspired this motion picture rendering is that 'Las Meninas' is a "film still that predates photography by 200 years". With this in mind, '89 Seconds at Alcázar' is realized as a ten-minute high definition video piece that allows the eternal moment depicted in the painting to exist as a fleeting gesture and continue as if the movement had occurred in daily life.