hexagram

arc | USA | 2014 | 3' |

| IFFR 2023

An emulsion-less film using hexagrams of the I-Ching and a commercial photocopier and toner as moving image-making devices in direct cinema. The printed images reach the projector gate to be deciphered as visual material and are then interpreted as sound 26 frames (roughly one second) later.

– arc

Also in this combined programme

ascensions
Focus: arc
An internal radiation of the elements absorbed, image and afterimage.
breathing
Focus: arc
The projector is the machine whirring back to us, the mechanics of the camera reflecting on the rhythms of automated labour.
window
Focus: arc
Colour, light and sound in contrapuntal layers of patterns and rhythm.
katabasis
Focus: arc
A parallel descent/ascent/descent in search of a miraculous unknown.
infinite column
Focus: arc
“…to perceive the shape of light which has been stretched forth.” – The Chaldean Oracles