The inhabitation of fiction - episode twelve

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Recap: "The Circle Camp is the beginning of the Martha Rubin-project about oracle Martha Rubin, who grew up in a circus and became a graceful dancer. Later her unique gift turned her into a marketplace attraction all over Europe - until she disappeared without a trace in 1913. Members of Martha Rubin Society live isolated from society and follow the oracle’s commands in city peripheries. They have built a camp around a circle of earth, stone and chalk and play her oracle-games non-stop for 38 hours."

Almost reaching the end of "The inhabitation of fiction" docu-soap, Sam Renseiw slowly gears down, voodling the remaining footage into the last remaining episodes. This documentary of The Circle Camp, still fresh, can be seen as a subjective trailer for the up-comming "staging" of Signa's Oracle Games in Cologne, Germany in September/October 2007. View excerpts of a joyful, frivolous dance and glimpses of Bacchic invocations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 487, 04'46'',25.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - Streaming direct version for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode eleven

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"The inhabitants of the installation harbor the fiction's reality as well as their own personal reality, and this flicker between reality and fiction challenges the spectator's own anchoring in reality."

Toggling away between reality and fiction, Sam Renseiw participates in a snake hunt and visits The circle Camp's out-door kitchen once more, to witness the succulent soup been prepared. View another of Sam's subjective, voodled footage from his experiences inhabitating a moment of fiction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 486, 02'336'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming version for all on fabulous blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode ten

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What, then, do these concepts of reality and identity imply? Are they merely cultural frames protecting us from an existential chaos by enabling us to deny that which falls outside - the inexplicable, the incomprehensible, the inscrutable? Or does everything move in fixed patterns - more elaborate than those which we ourselves have created and understand?

Docu-soap'ing un-chronologically further into the intricacies of The Circle Camp's performance, Sam Renseiw casually follows a delicate dancer and meets a primitive soup-kitcken-cook. View another episode of "The inhabitation of fiction" by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 485, 03'30'', 19,3MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for older Windows configured PC's at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode nine

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The wordplay / Between us gets very intense when there are / Fewer feelings around to confuse things. / Another go-round? No, but the last things / You always find to say are charming, and rescue me / Before the night does. We are afloat / On our dreams as on a barge made of ice, / Shot through with questions and fissures of starlight /That keep us awake, thinking about the dreams /As they are happening. Some occurrence. You said it.

Now one must find a few important words, and a lot of low-keyed, dull-sounding ones, mused Sam Renseiw while approached with queries on efficient women's seduction stratagems, yet only managing to utter sub-standart one-liners in return. View a short part of re-volving dialogue at The Circle Camp by clicking here or on the links above to continue the docu-soap odyssey. (patafilm # 484, 03'11'', 16.9MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming version for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode eight

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" And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, / No words to say what it really is, that it is not / Superficial but a visible core, then there is / No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience. / You will stay on, restive, serene in / Your gesture which is neither embrace nor warning / But which holds something of both in pure / Affirmation that doesn't affirm anything."

While witnessing Mimi's peripecies in The Circle Camp and her short, but quite genuine, row with Felix, Sam Renseiw maintains a serene Candid(e) like optimistic gaze, closing in on some of members of the Martha Rubin Society, chilling-out after yet another, evocative, ritual. View the unfolding of uncut-footage, docu-soap sliced, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 482, 05'26'', 29.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct video-streaming-player for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five C

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"Stories unfold in different places and over a long period of time - usually several days on end - so it will not be possible to see or hear what goes on everywhere all at once. The audience has to move through the spaces, talk to or listen to the performers in order to pick up as many fragments as possible."

As the chronology of The circle Camp documentation in docu-soap like episodes also begins to behave erratically, Sam Renseiw vaguely remembers a dream about a place, and its subsequent resurgence, in a camper-confined conversation. Seemingly, an exotic hut burned down, some time after. View an enigmatic moment of shrink-candour and footage of a beautiful, now lost, place by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 483, 05'330'', 30.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming version best for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode six

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"The flow is unpredictable and open to coincidence. The frames that keep the work together are there for reality and fiction to jar with them, just as they jar with each other - so that they can be expanded, moved or transcended through the improvisations of the performers and the participation of the audience."

Somehow loosing track of both space and time by now, Sam Renseiw recollects erratically: a progression of rituals seem to dissolve into a larger amorph expanse of rhythmic voodoo like activities, peppered by ecstatic chanting and traumatic failures at evoking Martha Rubin's coming. View an exhausting voodle - continuing patalab's meticulous docu-soap gaze on "The Circle Camp"- by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 481,03'333'', 18.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five B

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"The basis of SIGNA´s performance work is installation art. Mostly working site-specific, redifining and staging abandoned buildings and camp sites creating enigmatic timeless environments for the audience to explore and to live in."

With the passing of time, Sam Renseiw starts confusing the 15 hours spend during two visits at The Circle Camp... successions of rituals blend with pastoral settings, fleeting encounters with various members of the Martha Rubin Society, merge, with other characters...in a pele-mele fragmented puzzle of footage, imbibed with evocative, looping chants and distinct melodies. View a short moment of condensed et in arcadia ego complete with paraphernalia details by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 480b, 04'033'', 21.4MB, Quicktime/mov - streaming view-in-direct for PC users with obsolete Windows configurations via marvellous blip.tv, as always)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five

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"In this sudden unexpected intimacy and familiarity with the performers of the installation, the visitors' expectations for the work are challenged, and more importantly - they have to ask themselves: Who am I now, who am I here? SIGNA sees identity as something more than an immutable entity - as something which we ourselves can define and redefine indefinitely. The same goes for reality."

Indeed, so it goes, muses Sam Renseiw; on and on; ritual after ritual; into the circle...and none the same, yet with similar chanting permeating them all, varying the evolving activities to evoke the oracle. View the unfolding of one quiet ritual of the Oracle Games by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 480, 04'47'', 25.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - streaming version for PC at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode four

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" The barrier between the spectator and the installation, the audience and the performers is non-existent. The presence of the visitors in the room is as real - or unreal - as the piece of fiction that takes place around them. The works are not performance art pieces in the comtemporary sense. The aim of including performers in the installations is to guide or trick the viewer into the flux of the densely detailed set-ups."

Entering The Circle Camp's barn for the first time, Sam Renseiw is introduced to the Martha Rubin Society's basic custom sets, enchanted by the stark genius loci and the eagerness of the ongoing activities. In later, fourth-comming visits to the barn, the rituals evoking the oracle will unfold with much greater force and intensely disturbing drama. Enjoy the quiet entrance today by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 479, 03'49'', 19.5MB,Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode three

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"...The narrative flow is not chronologically progressive. It is possible to dive into the past of any of the characters as well as witnessing and being part of their common present in the installation space. The narratives are non-linear and often self-contradictable."

Slowly immersing himself into the intricacies of The Circle Camp's space-temporality, Sam Renseiw meets a few more characters and collects fresh footage to voodle. View the important encounter with the twins by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 478, 04'21'', 23.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode two

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"The work defies easy categorization as it intersects with a diverse spectrum of pop-cultural entertainment forms such as melodrama, music hall and whorehouse, mixing stereotypical cinematic clichés with bleak realism. The performance installations of SIGNA seek to explore structures of power and degradation, fate, identity and desire."

Voodling can have many forms. Almost unedited footage, segmented into episodes, forms distinct pieces of a larger visual puzzle, revealed in docu-soap manner. View episode two of Sam Renseiw's subjective gaze of "The Circle Camp's" development by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 477,04'24'', 23.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

The inhabitation of fiction - episode one

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"...She gave birth to 17 children out of marriage. Seven of these, including the Siamese twins Marthina and Corina, she raised together with the female sword swallower Cora Torrini. Martha Rubin disappeared in the Romanian harbour city Constantia in 1913..."

Toggling voodling activities a point further, Sam Renseiw enters the reality of fiction, depicting fragments of inscrutable beauty, poetic tragedy, desire and the hope of love. View the first episode of Patalab's ritualised voodle docu-soap of "The Circle Camp", introducing the Martha Rubin Society's graceful landscape(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 476, 02'45'', 14.6MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

No Bonus Lumieres while the docu-soap is featured; You might still enjoy all Other's fine Lumiere videos at home.

On all sorts going on

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"We never experience things seperately... but if that is so, it is all the more reason and challenge to create a sensory experience isolated from other sensory experiences, which is something rare in daily life. Voodling is not merely a duplication of life..."

Pondering for the moment on the apparent futility of voodling activities, Sam Renseiw voodled some forthnight old footage into a banal flux, all framed in a box. View a short parade of audience on the way to a Rolling Stones concert with some added fluxus on the audio by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 470, 03'35'', 19.3MB, Quicktime /mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a mognificent composite view of the corner of the Christiansborg church, the temporarelly scaffolded tower of Christiansborg, and the statue of a Fishmonger. (Lum # 35 scene from gl.strand, 00'41'', 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov) Fine other's Lumiere videos here.

On the spectator's inner osmosis

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"People always speak of art with this great, religious reverence, but why should it be so revered ? The onlooker is as important as the artist. In spite of what the artist thinks he is doing, something stays on that is completely independent of what he intended, and that something is grabbed, if he is lucky. The artist himself doesn't count. The work of art is always based on these two poles of the maker and the onlooker, and the spark that comes from this bi-polar action gives birth to something."

Voodling around while waiting with the rabitt and the co-driver for the next single audience in last week's invisible reality, Sam Renseiw caught a few surprising moves. Watch the unfolding of the deck for bi-polar action by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 473, 01'22'', 6.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a bout of seemingly absurd reality, caught while passing by a "rustur"s departure, demonstrating that reality is far more interesting in its ritualised posing. (Lum # 30 the rustur start - panum, 00'46'', 4.2Mb, Quicktime/mov) All Other's Lum Videos here.

Dance meets halfmachine

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" The former floating engineer platform weighs 480 tonsspreads over 800m2, 3 decks, cabins, cargo rooms, cranes and giantwater pumps and generators; MS Half Machine is a living, breathing work of art and interactive space(s). Recycled materials meet new technology, dance meets machine."

Exempeted from driving duties in invisible reality, Sam Renseiw assembled night footage from the opening of M/S Halfmachine into a singular voodle. View the meditative synaesthetic mood shifts by clicking here or on the links above, ( patafilom # 474, 02'19'', 12 MB, Quicktime /mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a silent parade of open red umbrellas. ( Lum # 31 the umbrella parade, 00'58'', 4.9MB, Quicktime/mov) All other's streaming videos at the Lumiere site.

On feet, frame and footage

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“ Narrative is the artistic structure of technocracy. The voodling we need, the voodles that might somehow resist Hollywood, sit-coms and TV schemata could, therefore, be non-narrative. ”

Pondering further on the potential essence of voodling, Sam Renseiw compiled and crudely montaged some fleeting footage, grounded in light gravel, captured while meditating on a public bench; A quiet tribute- almost half a century late - to Lipsett's Very Nice and reflections on Zoe T's newly displayed found footage(s). View the parade by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 471, 03'15'', 17.2Mb, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a very visible feature of Copenhagen's Tivoli: The hair-rising Star Flyer.(Lum# 29 the Tivoli star flyer, 01'00'' 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres here.

Harvey and other back-yard appearances

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"...From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and interrupted car rides..."

While momentarily exploring the quiet delights of cab-driving in invisible reality, Sam Renseiw captures a few delightful, yet strange encounters in a Copenhagen back-yard. View the casual meetings by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 472, 01'59'', 11 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video represents yet an encounter with a prosaic street artist, almost in monochrome. (Lum # 28, the painter, 00'59'', Quicktime/mov) Other's fine videos at the Lumiere Home.

On the simultaneity of Cargo Sofia

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" Cargo Sofia is an alternative “road-movie” and you are the passenger... Videos, ordinary stories, the streets passing by all depict a particular view of the world and city in a global perspective. You will experience an unknown Copenhagen."

Voodling might also be about showing the shown being shown while making a clear description, without loosing the mystery and including the poetic awe of an intense and candid outlook, muses Sam Renseiw, while assembling a montage of yesterday's footage from an alternative road-trip. Get the feel of being human freight on the move by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 469, 03'20'', 18MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features The Baron in the Threes, with a glimpse of Viola passing by. (Lum # 27 the baron in the trees, 01'00'', 5.3MB, Quicktime/mov) And remember: Lumiere video rocks too !

On organ grinder(s) and by-passers

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"Voodling can be this or it can be that. (But) it ought not be restricted to being necessarily this or that. . . except perhaps for being both delirious and lucid . . . It seems to me that beyond voodling, there is a mysterious something that has yet to be isolated; beyond automatism, there is intent, beyond the picturesque there is the image, beyond passive consumerism there is deliberate seing, beyond liberated gazes there is the liberated, candid voyeur"

Just passing by while shopping for groceries, Sam Renseiw speculated further on the nature of voodling, thus cranking out yet another prosaic voodle from the day's accumulated footage. View the melodic grinding of footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 468, 01'38'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a semi-dramatic truck stop. (Lum # 26 truck stop, 01'00'', 5 MB, Quicktime/mov) Lumiere Rules roll on !.

Smaller poorer cheaper + algebra of place

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"There are plenty of gasp worthy moments, humour and bewilderment to enjoy. Smaller Poorer Cheaper is pushing physical and theatrical limits, while maintaining a singular poetic and eccentric vision."

Returning from a stunning, poetic physical enlightenment, Sam Renseiw montages parts of the footage -inadvertently caught on some old tape with excerpts from The Algebra of Place - into a singular voodle: a lyrical reflection on gender issues. View the denouement by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 467, 01'57'' 7.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv) Extra, external Acrobat movie-trailer here

Today's Bonus Lumiere video is an ultra-short feature from "Smaller Poorer Cheaper", as usual without audio according to Andreas' Lumiere Rules (Lum # 25, 00'43'',1.6MB, Quicktime/mov)

A blurred visual note on "La Notte"

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"Pictorial poetry does not differ in its essence from the poetry of the cinema or from poetry as such. In its different expressions, voodling is one... A voodle does not depict what is, but what might be revealed within oneself"

Further pondering on the extensive palette of voodling expressions, Sam Renseiw posts a nature voodle complete with garden furniture and almost full moon. View the existential sureties by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 463, 01'18', 4.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features the inside view of a larger urban context, constituting the starting point of an invisible reality. (lum # 24 the invisible reality show, 00'59'', 5.4MB, Quicktime/mov) As usual no audio, according to Lumiere Rules.

Trough the passage of time

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A:"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance." B:"Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul"

With the sudden departure of both Bergman and Antonioni, Sam Renseiw briskly voodled un-montaged footage into a single frame. In contrast to Ingmar Bergman's massive close-ups of the face in which the subject stares straight out at the viewer and Antonioni's here on- and off-screen subjects gazing ahead at the same vista, today's voodle brings about an unnerving trifle of framed affectivity. View the road movie exploring a static reality by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 465, 02'08'', 13.1MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)