A ‘structurally’ edited montage of repeating found footage linking political, nuclear and military images from discarded documentaries. This is interspersed with film shots of a bare light bulb before a blank wall. During the presentation an actual light bulb in front of the screen is occasionally lit and flashed counter-pointing the filmed image of the bulb and obscuring the screen image. This device was intended to break the cinematic illusion and draw attention to the real time and space occupied by the audience during the projection.
Also in this combined programme
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For Zen for Film
In 1964, at the Fluxhall on Canal Street in New York, Nam June Paik gave the first public screening of Zen For Film. This was a projection of a rol
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The Zone of Total Eclipse
The Finnish artist Mika Taanila manipulates found scientific footage – a registration of an eclipse – that he shows in both positive an
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Line Describing A Cone
The projection is more important than the screen. A screen is not really necessary.
Film details
- Country of production
- UK
- Year
- 1966
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 20"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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