On further ground footage

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"Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious ground implosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the voodler is called in to somehow dissolve the mystery."

Partying here and there, Sam Renseiw recently encountered video footage spread over concrete flooring, enabling yet more crude and silly footage. Step in by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 505, 01'07'',8MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a mute bossa-nova band, complete with bjork backdrop. (Lum # 38 the bossa-nova band, 01'00'', Quicktime/mov) Other's Lumieres there.

On radio transmissions, visions and light

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"The qualities of inside out and outside in are important in the manner that the boundary of landscape to sky is worked or made malleable. In the end, we are gardening or tending the sky. Making malleable the physical boundaries is analogous to working the boundaries of self. It is unimportant whether the picture plane is passed through physically or merely with the penetration of vision... In this sense you are not so much looking into a garden as you are looking out from one."

Far from perfect or Turrell like, Sam Renseiw ponders, while visiting and simultaneously recording an ephemeral event and a performance-art-installation instigated by his alter-ego. View the short and somewhat cryptic night-voodle featuring Eva W. adjusting her battery of transmitting transistor radios in the temple by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 502, 03'24'', 21MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video feature another quiet architectural change of colour.(Lum # 37, 01'00'', 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov)

Cine-Club Patalab: " meta-pata "

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"I do not voodle for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I voodle for myself and for my friends, and I practice voodling to ease the passing of time."

As patalab's vision and focus includes much metafiction, Sam Renseiw attempts to enlarge self-referential voodling to a broader canvas this time. Dear friends: indulge in a tiny bout of older patafilms, projected at a large social gathering, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 501,02'25'', 14.7MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

On odd numbers and footage

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"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

indeed, muses Sam Renseiw: it could have been a fine jubilee for # 500 patafilm...a fine gained, high pixelled and colourful video. Instead, just some sloppy, dark and corny odd footage posted again. Yet, no worries: more to come, as patalab's videos migrate on to some larger screening, next week. Click here or on the links above to unravel...(patafilm # 500, 01'27'', 8.8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Cine-Club Patalab: " dziga vertov #1"

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"Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now they have perfected the digital camera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten."

Voodling can seem to be an act of inconspicuous, digital visual doodling. Nevertheless, it records banal moments with great potential for further educative developments into other fields, reflects Sam Renseiw, while adding one more gaze to the projection of Dziga Vertov's seminal masterpiece. View a short excerpt of Kino-Eye magic complete with new experimental soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 499, 03'02'', 19 MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

On the performance of creative acts

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"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds her contribution to the creative act."

Voodling aloof at the recent Art-Money party, Sam Renseiw caught a glimpse of exquisite footage amidst myriad of Art-Money samples drenched in down-tempo and glitter. View the upgraded, lofty focus in the large basement by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 498, 02'47'', 15.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Cine-Club Patalab: " soy cuba "

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"The first scene is a breathtaking hand-held travelling shot that moves sinuously through partygoers and bikini-clad women on a high- rise penthouse hotel roof, then descends down the side of the building to a crowded swimming pool and finally — without a cut — winds up underwater with the swimmers. Why do film buffs not jabber endlessly about these astonishing sequences? Why are they not endlessly quoted and pastiched in other movies?"

Indeed, muses Sam Renseiw and complies with a short voodle of a drawing exercise including Mikhail Kalatozov's seminal sequence of the above mentioned travelling shot of "Soy Cuba"... Enjoy the casual mash-up of footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 497, 03'28'', 20.8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

On aleatory drawing techniques

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"Vooding is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. the first stage is free, unconscious, but the second stage is carefully calculated."

After recording footage of a collective frottage, Sam Renseiw carefully blurs up the revelation during the second voodling stage. Enjoy a short moment of down-to-earth altered frottage footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 496, 01'59'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Cine-Club Patalab: " bande a part"

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"Producing voodles at this moment means nothing else than: studying the changes undergone by the cinema from Lumière and Eisenstein to the present, and studying them in practice; that is to say, by making voodles about the inconspicuousness of daily life."

Continuing Patalab's Cine-Club sequel, Sam Renseiw invites you to a short, cinematic voodle-while-working piece, featuring Godard's exquisite, seminal and timeless choreography of Anna Karina in "Bande a part". Click here or on the links above to enter the club. (patafilm # 497, 03'27'' 2o.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features yet another, small-sized, badly composed, utterly boring, water video, illuminated by the great Gatstby's green light. (Lum # 36 horizon at bellevue, 00'57'', 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

Cine-Club Patalab: " the perfect human "

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" Look, the perfect human moving in a room. The perfect human can move in a room. The room is boundless and radiant with light. It is an empty room. Here are no boundaries. Here is nothing...and even today I have learned something that I might first understand some days from now..."

Voodling away daily anyhow, Sam Renseiw, prompted by b's kind comments, sets up a momentary Cine-Club for the next four post on patalab. Enjoy a short moment of projection of Jørgen Leth's "The Perfect Human" in another space with triple gaze, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 495, 01'55'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

Today's Bomus Lumiere video features the fine art of cutting corners at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen. (Lum# 36, 01'00, 7MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's Lumieres: go there.

On nature, slow and fast moves

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" to look for ways to ask the question, wondering and looking for where... The question is not-yet-formed. It hovers at the racetracks, stadiums, theaters, and all public places, dripping beneath the stars."

Still slightly overwhelmed by gazing into the avarice, Sam Renseiw voodled seemingly absurd natural moves into a meditative, fixed piece of cognitive experience. Click here to view or on the links above. (patafilm # 494,03'04'',19.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the-fine-art-of-visiting-a-church-in-under-20-seconds. (Lum #35 "fast visitors", 01'00'', 6.4Mb, Quicktime/mov). More, other's Lumiere(s): here.

On confined dance moves

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"She can read the image in the overlapping / even from outside, / those parts that overlap / lip and facial movement / color of the image as it changes— / pushed her leg through the rippling / image changes."

In "A True Story About Two People" Julie Tolentino slow dances with selected spectators for 24 hours in a small mirrored installation, unfolding in the House's foyer; Sam Renseiw, re-voodled a very short moment for afar, using a single picture from Julianne B to re-frame a delicate move. View the encounter by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 490, 01'09'' 4.2MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv) New version, as Julie T uttered: "yikes" hearing the soundtrack.:-)

On rough and sliced-cut footage

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" i / my feet / and you / your feet / standing / our feet / standing / i could say other things / about other things. "

"If we scrutinize closely what is done in counting an aggregate or number of things, we are led to consider the ability of the mind to relate things to things, to let a thing correspond to a thing, or to represent a thing by a thing, an ability without which no thinking is possible.." paraphrases Sam Renseiw, while slice-cutting fresh footage into a voodle after an ceremonious academic opening. View the footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 492, 01'28'', 8.9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Golden Days and the vault of perception

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".. if to the fashion plate representing each age he were to add the philosophic thought with which that age was most preoccupied or concerned—the thought being inevitably suggested by the fashion plate—he would see what a profound harmony controls all the components of history, and that even in those centuries which seem to us the most monstrous and the maddest, the immortal thirst for beauty has always found its satisfaction. "

Stumbling rather inadvertedly into the celebrations of Golden Days, Sam Renseiw entered the city's dry-burning cathedral, only to realise that this was yet another staged performance ritual. This time, heavily sponsored, and oddly celebrating defeat and destruction... the burning hut at The Circle Camp, seemed that much more real, in hindsight. View an excerpt of C.F Hansen's interior, ablaze, complete with inauguration speech by Bertel Haarder by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 491, 01'48'', 10.5MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a more watery scene, complete with tourists. (Lum # 34, the gefion fountain, 01'00'', 6.7MB, Quicktime/mov) As always, more other's Lumieres at the site.

The inhabitation of fiction - last episode

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" We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time. / Through the unknown, un-remembered gate / When the last of earth left to discover /Is that which was the beginning;"

At last. The final episode. Concluding the documentation of The Circle Camp, Sam Renseiw now looks forward to other voodling grounds... Yet, the feat of compiling casually voodled footage into fifteen, more or less coherent, docu-soap episodes totalling almost one hour, seems to open up new vlogging territory to explore... Enjoy this last, quiet episode, that ends in somehow the same way as it began, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 489,02.42'',17.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for PC at blip.tv)

The Circle Camp was Signa's work in progress for the coming staging of their Oracle Games in Cologne, Germany. Should you be around, Sam warmly recommends this unforgettable, seminal performance art experience. Thus, you might have the possibility of getting acquainted with the darker, voodic, dionysic and overwhelmingly awesome, evocative rituals, that where discretely omitted here on patalab's docu-soap.

To soothe the withdrawal symptoms in the meantime, here is a Bonus Lumiere video for you, featuring a inconspicuous, but nevertheless central space in the circle camp. (Lum # 33, 01'00, 5.9MB, Quicktime/mov). More other's Lumieres at Andreas H's site.

The inhabitation of fiction - episode thirteen

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"Except for the point, the still point, / There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. / I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where / And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time."

As time and place seem to rescind into confused memories, Sam Renseiw ponders once more on the originating conditions of simple dance moves. Indulge in a boring,short piece of uninterrupted, unedited, very plain voodling around the The Circle Camp's camp fire, accompanied by crude fiddle tunes, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 488b,02'03'',12.1MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming version at blip.tv) Last episode of " The inhabitation of fiction" will be posted tomorrow...