Instead of operating primarily at the kinetic level, or with rapid perceptual rhythm, this film involves the audience in a conceptual and reflexive process. Five short sequences, each about eight frames long, are all shot from the same viewpoint in a quay-side cafe. They show a window, broken by the silhouettes of objects and people inside the cafe and by the passage of people and a ship outside. Each shot containing some small movement is repeated in the film 21 times, in a mathematically determined order. The significance does not lie in the mathematical sequences as such, but in how the viewer attempts to decipher the structure. (Malcolm Le Grice)
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Wien 17, Schumanngasse
We will never know, how long this street really is, since rules and structures of reality are only gaugable by the rules and structures of… -
Somersault Sally Or The Manipulation Of Cinema
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Angles of Incidence
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Adjungierte Dislokation I
In Valie Export’s hands, the inter-media techniques and interaction between material and actor/audience associated with expanded cinema often mean dir -
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3/60 Trees in Autumn
In this film, perception of material relationships in the world is seen to be no more than a product of the structural activity in the… -
Film details
- Country of production
- Austria
- Year
- 1967
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
