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.
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… -
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 and negative. -
Castle One
Structural montage of politically-tinted found-footage material, interrupted by a flashing light.
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 1973
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm