Line Describing A Cone

In this film, the conventional primacy of the screen is completely abandoned in favour of the primacy of the projection event. A screen is not even mandatory. McCall succinctly describes the film: ‘The viewer watches the film by standing with his, or her, back towards what would normally be the screen, and looking along the beam towards the projector itself. The film begins as a coherent line of light, like a laser beam, and develops into a complete, hollow cone of light. The audience is expected to move up and down, in and out of the beam - this can not be fully experienced by a stationary spectator.’ See also his drawing Two Pencil Durations (1974) in the exhibition Borderline Behaviour.