Featuring close-ups of eyes from early experiments in color printing, 'Chromatic Aberration' uses film elements from the George Eastman House collection to explore the aesthetics of “color fringing.” The film draws inspiration from a brief scene in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), where the transition from the reality of color to the black and white of the afterworld is conveyed from the viewpoint of David Niven’s eyelid. The film turns the cinematic lens in on itself, from a prosthetic recording eye to the abstract inner screen of one’s eyelids. The film evokes an imagined abstract colour world, a flickering eyelid trapped in a mechanical peephole. The eye shimmers between dreamy reverie, curiosity, terror, defiance and awe.