This performance was first presented in 1971. It involves three 16mm projectors, each with a short loop of full-screen, changing colours. They are projected onto the same screen – the centre image large and the two side images smaller and superimposed into the centre of the larger screen. The performance is concerned with the presence of the body and its complex colour shadows. The action begins with touching the screen and – passing through the space of the audience – it ends at the projectors. The action is timed to an audio tape of breathing. Though improvised in detail to fit the particular time and place, the action follows a consistent pattern that has changed little since the first performance.
Also in this combined programme
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Some Thing / No Thing
A light, sound performance, the subject of which is the bare essence of the object cinema, with some surface noise. -
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Abstract Film No.1
Expanded performance with mirror, water, thick and thin liquids, flashlights and screen. -
Timelapse of Filmaktion
Time-lapse recording of Filmaktion in the Walker Art Gallery, filmed during a week in June 1973. -
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1971
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 14'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
