Catching Light

One of the biggest problems in my work is the 'screen' element, what the light (be it image of efffect) is being cast onto.

The two things I want to show with the screen are the 3d qualities of light and it's immaterial nature. As soon as it is captured on a flat screen these two qualities are lost.

The latest idea is a type of flick book screen using the principle of an animation, where the eye reads a rapid succesion of images as a flowing sequence. In this way the light should appear to hover in 3d.