I used a moving frame of my own fabrication: a perforated strip of black paper which I moved in front of the camera. I refilmed the same roll several times with this moving frame. Each time it was filmed using different speeds, rhythms and colours. I created a visual shock by mixing together these powerful parameters. It created an implosion of the screen. (CL)
Also in this combined programme
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Word Movie (Fluxfilm #29)
Fifty words visually ‘repeated’ in varying sequential and positional relationships, each frame being a different word or word fragment. -
Cuidado’ Light
Brazilian artist Barrus questions the fascination so many film makers have with ‘the image’. This work is a fake, a response to the films Flicker… -
Still Life
This film considers the subject of HIV and AIDS from a variety of different viewpoints; an auditive and visual poem. -
Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.
This film takes the view that certain defining characteristics of the medium, such as those mentioned in the title, are worthy subjects in their own… -
Xenogenesis
Scratch lines, which are normally rejected as noise, begin to conflict with an image of a man walking who is present there. -
Rate of Change
This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, transgressing the perimeter of the spectrum.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 1982
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
