Single-channel video with original audio – 4 minutes – 2025
Photographer, director, producer, editor: Osceola Refetoff

Music: Insufficient Feeling
Written by Angela McCluskey & Kiran Shahani
Produced by Kiran Shahani
Musicians: Angela McCluskey, Micheal Railton, Kiran Shahani

Spectral Highways opens a window onto the process I use for creating infrared photographs through the windshield of my car. The film presents stop motion animations made from hundreds of still images captured while driving. From these, only a dozen or so are selected to make exhibition prints for my series Flirting with DIsaster.

Note how the original RAW digital exposures are converted to black & white. Also the science behind making multispectral exposures using filters in front of the lens to record specific sections of both the infrared and visual spectrums. Spectral Highways itself is an example of my commitment to experimenting with new and old image processes to devise new ways of seeing.

The film premiered at my Magic and Realism exhibition at the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster, California. It is lovingly dedicated to my dear friend Angela McCluskey, whose inimitable voice saturates the soundtrack.