This film has no literal subject, no frames, only slow continuously shifting colours, cycling around the perimeter of the spectrum. The changes are so slow as to be unseen, yet they alter our perception of colour. Part of a trilogy (Acts of Light), which develops a study of pure colour, based on the notion that film is essentially change and not motion.
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… -
Holon
For Holon, Lebrat used a ‘moving frame’ of his own fabrication: a perforated strip of black paper which he moved in front of the camera.. -
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.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1972
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
