John dances with, and is led by, the camera, which is running at one frame per second and turning its own way on the end of a fishing pole line while being raised and lowered from rooftops and bridges. Throughout, the camera is looking down at John on the ground, who is looking back up at the camera and turning with it. Camera hoisting was done by John’s friend Stephen Niblock. Many different locations were used, edited in-camera, and there were two shooting sessions, a year apart. The first was of outdoor locations. The second was of indoor locations (stairwells) shot with time exposures, creating occasional abstract vortexes.
Also in this combined programme
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Firefly
The film maker improvises a performance for the camera with a small lamp swinging on a long chord. Long exposure times and unexpected lens errors t
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Rock Jam
An action painting made with a Super8 camera of large groups of visitors at different rock concerts.
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Scanning 5
Performance in which John Porter, with the projector in his hand, provides a stunning surround-Super8 environment.
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Amusement Park
Magnificent use of the time-lapse technique completes the transformation from fairground attractions to immaterial light objects. Uncomplicated zoo
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Toy Catalog 3
For many large children among the viewers, undoubtedly an unexpected sentimental journey. The screen fills up with piles and piles of mini-toys fro
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Blade Sharpener
Made in a single shot from the other side of the road. The film maker respectfully portrays a knife & blade sharpener going from door to door.
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Landscape
A small landscape painting with the still young film maker and his mother, calmly sketching on the edge of an agricultural area.
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Santa Claus Parade
Toronto’s great annual Christmas Parade, seen from the end of the long and wide University Avenue. Filmed for eight hours at four frames a second.<
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Exams
A beautiful time-lapse registration of hundreds of tables in a large hall that is occupied in a brief time by an equal number of students.
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Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1981
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 3"
- Medium/Format
- Super 8
