“A word has different meanings, depending on how it’s used in relation to other words,” says Steven Dye, one-third of San Francisco’s Wet Gate, wizards of light, sound and motion. “In and of itself, it’s just a thing, but it’s how it’s used in context.”
The same goes for moving pictures, whether it’s the grainy old educational clips or the handcrafted abstract strips with which the trio create, and in fact improvise to a degree, a luminous collage of loops and layers, entirely by way of creaky old 16mm projectors.