The lapse of time between two instances

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" When pondering the nature of memory, the one thing to note is the lapse of time between two instances: one is the event or state of what is remembered and the other is the act of remembering. This temporal gap is a striking aspect of memory, somewhat in the similar sense that spatial dimensions, along with other relevant physical conditions, is an integral part of psychological explanation of visual perception."

Attending a silent animated journey to an abandoned hotel in a slowly crystallising dense wilderness, Sam Renseiw momentarily re-investigates Ann Lislegaard's hybrid space from a back seat. View the flattened imagery by clicking here or on the appropriate links above. (patafilm # 377, 01'48'', 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Distinction between analytic and synthetic

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" Metaphysical knowledge must contain simply judgments à priori, so much is demanded by the speciality of its sources. But judgments, let them have what origin they may, or let them even as regards logical form be constituted as they may, possess a distinction according to their content, by virtue of which they are either simply explanatory and contribute nothing to the content of a cognition, or they are extensive, and enlarge the given cognition; the first may be termed analytic, and the second synthetic judgments."

One may bungle in metaphysics in many ways, without any danger of being detected in fallacy reasons Sam Renseiw remembering Kant, yet amazed by radiations from Haugen Soerensen's "Stupidity's Mother" on recent display at SMK. View some short footage of reactions to the piece by clicking here. ( patafilm # 376, 01'52'', 8.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On fancy versus constructive imagination

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"There are two kinds of imagination: fancy, which is relatively passive, and constructive imagination, which is relatively active. Constructive imagination is dominated by a systematic unity of plan controlling the process of selective combination. Fancy, on the contrary, forms new combinations, which are relatively detached and sporadic instead of being integral parts of a whole."

Inasmuch as imagination is conditioned by absence of the objective control which belief essentially involves, belief and imagination are mutually exclusive, muses Sam Renseiw while capturing imaginative footage of soma delicate hand-paintings. View the iconolatry by clicking here, on the icon or other appropriate links. (patafilm # 373, 03'06'' 8.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Just dust falls from demagnetized patterns

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"Hence a knowledge of the time sequences of values of about 1.2 sites suffice in principle to determine the values of all other sites. In practice however the function which gives the initial configuration in terms of these temporal sequences seems rapidly to become intractably complicated.."

While studying the hanging of flat space-time-patterns according to evolution and starting from a typical disordered initial state, Sam Renseiw captured embedded footage, to be viewed via here or by clicking on the right patterns on the icon above. - Remember to discover the many lovely and instructive sub-links scattered in the text. (patafilm # 371, 01'56'', 2.2 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

Woven out of syllables and images

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The secret was there, in those pages, woven out of syllables and images. He entrusted it to me just before he died. He made me swear not to open it until forty days after his death, long enough to allow him to die completely. I opened it on the night of the forty-first day. I was overwhelmed by perfume. I read the first sentence and understood nothing. I read a paragraph and understood nothing. I read the whole of the first page and was illuminated.

Capturing footage from a recent Ben Jelloun pro forma transformation, Sam Renseiw, followed for a moment the indescisive clothing moves of a blurred character. View the teasing strip by clicking here or enter the line-up above. (patafilm # 374, 03'13'', 7.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

We All Get It In the End

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“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Waiting to experience the Shortbus hype, Sam Renseiw caught some hand-held footage under a staircase, while Pro Forma guest(ing). View the graphically explicit moves by clicking here or enter the body embrace above. (patafilm # 372, 01'47'', 2.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the ecstasy of communication

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"The simulacra have passed from the second to the third, from the dialectic of alienation to the giddiness of transparency. At the same time, after and with De la Séduction the dream of a transgression...and the nostalgia for a symbolic order of any kind, born out of the deep of primitive societies, or of our historical alienation, have been lost. With Séduction there is...no more recovered object, no more original desire..."

Capturing some obscene footage without any secret(s), dissolving completely in information and communication, Sam Renseiw speculates in a short (re)production of simulacra and seduction. View the readable, moving pro forma commodity by clicking here or enter the generalised interface above. (patafilm # 368, 02'51'', 25.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the consistency of performance art

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"There are two art worlds: the popular one which anyone can understand, and the academic one controlled by relatively few people. The latter has a very different approach and tries to be sensational for the sake of it...People understand less an unmade bed or a pickled pig's head.... There are no emperor's new clothes around Jack Vettriano's paintings, by the way."

Having a bout of split-personality amidst 4 fair maiden in a sand-childish pro forma environment, Sam Renseiw opted for the popular Vettriano optic. View the fine footage by clicking here, or enter the stiletto game above. (patafilm # 369 01'27'' 4.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the persistence of vision (revisited)

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"The time has surely come when only the creationists among us will cling to the myth of persistence of vision as an actual explanation of how movies come to be. Second, and more important, the concept of the passive viewer implied by the myth, the one upon whose sluggish retina (or brain) the images pile up, must be replaced by an enlightened understanding of how viewers actually interface with motion pictures."

As hang-around part of the small, unobserved circle of sceptics regarding the established premises of the persistence of vision theorem, Sam Renseiw enters the debate with a cryptic piece of fresh footage from a yet idle Copenhagen amusement location. View the curved spoke effect by clicking here or enter the multi-coulour above. (patafilm # 367, 01'35'', 14 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On subtleties in stasis

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" E.J Marey was not out to replicate the illusion of motion. On the contrary, he sought to demystify its illusion so that he might better contemplate its subtleties in stasis, at leisure. In this sense, chronophotography is at odds with film -- a kind of dissection without any attempt at simulation."

Still keeping it simple but moving, Sam Renseiw documented a bout of old fashioned draftsmanship in an alley. View the footage spacing out by clicking here or enter the set-up above. (patafilm # 366, 02'02'', 15.6 MB, Quicktime/ mov - Flash version at Blip.tv) And, by the way: great stop- motions in the embedded links above, too.

On fashionable scopophilia

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" The camera gazes. It presents evidence destined to disturb. This evidence cries out for argument, some interpretive frame within which to comprehend it. [Nowhere is this need more acutely felt than in a film that refuses to provide any explanatory commentary whatsoever...]"

Must be an older quote, muses Sam Renseiw, capturing new, recent peeping footage, reminiscent of some past fashion projects re-views; nice! hot cool! now!. View the short kinky footage from brewery museum floors by clicking here, or step in above. (patafilm #365, 00'53'', 3.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the function of the mirror-stage

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"I am led, therefore, to regard the function of the mirror-stage as a particular case of the function of the imago, which is to establish a relation between the organism and its reality – or, as they say, between the Innenwelt and Umwelt."

Reflecting on Lacan’s " Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I " Sam Renseiw produced an ultra short piece of mirror(ed) footage. View it by clicking here or enter the ante-chambre above. (patafilm # 363, 00'34'', 2.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)
Remember, you non-reading video-zappers: links in all text post at Patalab02 sometimes may contain interesting surprises....

On the stubborn life of rooms

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"The stubborn life of these rooms had not allowed itself to be trampled out. It was still there; it clung to the nails that had been left in the walls; it found a resting-place on the remaining handbreadth of flooring; it squatted beneath the corner beams where a little bit of space remained. There were the midday meals and the sicknesses and the exhalations and the smoke of years, and the stale breath of mouths, and the oily odour of perspiring feet."

Remembering that the task of architecture is to make visible "how the world touches us", Sam Renseiw paraphrases Merleau-Ponty's view on Cezanne, in a cool and snowy piece of footage. View what might be in the interior of the house by clicking here or enter the scene above. (patafilm # 364, 02'09'' 10.2MB, Quicktime/mov Flash version at Blip.tv)