Tuesday, February 12, 2008

On Voodle-dialectics of seeing


click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod / other versions at Blip.tv

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the present ground is the medium in which past spaces and artefacts lie interred and can be voodled forth... Thus, work on a good voodle has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an tectonic one when it is montaged, and a textile one when it is woven into a moving picture... Yet, a voodle real strength's lies in its improvisation. All the decisive framings should be struck in a serendipitous and left-handed flow."

Pondering on a recent statement that museums and old buildings might be too soporific environments, Sam Renseiw re-visited a local museum on a sunny Sunday afternoon. View the inspired voodle unfolding of the museum-interior gaze, complete with didactic, Godard-like whispers by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 570, 06'03'' 35.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) [semanal08 project, week 7 cross-post]

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features a classic, architectural soft-reflection-on-granite from inside the above mentioned museum. (Lum # 87, "soft-granite-reflection",00'48'' 5.1MB, Quicktime/mov) Other's fine Lumieres at A&B's site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features a contrasting promenade, also through a museum: this time in a modern, contemporary white space, with nothing on exhibition. (patafilm # 223, 02'22''[01.08.2006 post], 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov) Click here or on the bold links in the text to view.

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