On the poetics of immersion

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" Certain forms born of water have more attraction, more compelling force, more consistency. That is because more material and profound reveries intervene, because our inner being is more deeply engaged, and because our imagination dreams more specifically of creative acts. Then the poetic power, which was imperceptible in a poetry of reflections, appears suddenly. Water becomes matter. And it is then that materialising reverie, uniting dreams of water with less mobile, more sensual reveries, finally builds on water and develops a more profound and intense feeling for it."

Recently immersed in Sensuous Knowledge, Sam Renseiw pondered on the nature of voodling, naration and reverie: A narrative tells a story over time, a voodle, on the contrary, just reflects on a moment in time, leaving the train of imagery open and fragmented. Immerse in a reflective moment by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 631, 02'1'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a minute of serene immersion. (lum # 152, 01'00'' 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video also features pool footage. (patafilm # 221 [01.08.2006 post], 01'31'', 6.9 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On temporal and narrative voodle disorders

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"We are left to grasp hold of a story constructed of allusions that leaves us in a place of indeterminate temporal and narrative disorder in which concretization of the whole appears unattainable. When confronted with a work, shamelessly undisclosed and unresolved the viewer assumes an invigorating, empowered role where a myriad of potential narratives await completion."

Recently embedded in Sensuous Knowledge, Sam Renseiw investigated the depths of Unloud's unfolding in the wizardry of an appropriate cave in Os . View the psychogeographic voodle dislocation(s) by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 630, 04'37'' 25.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a soft, gliding approach. (Lum # 151," sensuous inbound " 01'00'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a gaze on space and desire. (patafilm # 442, [21.07.2007 post]03'10'', 14.3Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On sculpture and installation variance(s)

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" There's an experiential distinction between walking round a sculpture and entering a built structure that encompasses you. You know logically that when you look at things they're fake, because you know the space is not what it's purporting to be. Yet to all intents and purposes your eye tells you that it's real, so you enter a pact with this space, as to whether to believe it or not. It's like when you read the first few pages of a book. You know it's not real, it's a fiction, but you agree somewhere along the line to go along with it and enter this fictive realm. You can almost start to read things subconsciously; you become interested in the spaces, doors and the objects within that space, as opposed to thinking constantly: 'I'm in a piece of art.' Your mind is allowed to wander a little more. "

Performing a local Reality Check, Sam Renseiw investigated an a[mazing] sequence of artfully enclosed, almost empty spaces. View the freshly docu-voodled, oneiric, Borges inspired walk-trough by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 629, 03'59'', 21.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a sculpture - or, might the moving conglomerate be labelled: installation ? (Lum #150, "flying steamroller" 01'00'', 4.7MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video features a similar enclosed space walk - that sort of made it to Hollywood via New York - back in 2007. (patafilm # 314, 04'01'', [06.12.206 post],18 MB, Quicktime/mov.)

Patalab mourns the recent loss of Mauricio Kagel, the great composer, filmmaker (of fine early voodles) and artist. You can view his fine Ludwig Van (incomplete) voodle at Ubuweb.

On one from all of yesterday's parties

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" Andy was a hunter-gatherer. Edie was one of the things that he collected. He toyed with her, played with her, just like a child plays with a watch, destroys it and throws it aside. Everything became Andy's material. All the casualties that came around him... none of those people were really important to him. They each were searching for self importance, but never realised they were only raw material, that's what destroyed them."

Spending a long afternoon re-viewing a treat selection of Andy's 11 films on show in Oslo, Sam Renseiw, moved by Edie's desperate and yet candid appearance, concocted a ultra short voodle from direct re-po footage. View the mash-up, with minute excerpts from Kiss, Poor Little Rich Girl and Restaurant, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 626, 00'59'', 5.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a watchful eye on iconic modern art. (Lum # 149, " andy's custodian " 01'00'', 4.8Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play suplement features a different chorus girl. (patafilm 133, 02'04' [09.04.2006 post] ', 4.5 MB, mov/quicktime)

On space-voodling and sheer attention

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"As soon as a person appears who has something primitive about him, so that he does not say " one must accept the world as it is [...] but says " However the world is, I shall retain an originality which I do not mean to alter in accordance with the world's wishes" : At the moment these words are heard, the whole of existence is transformed. As in the fairy-tale, when the word is spoken, the castle opens after being enchanted for a hundred years, and everything comes to life: so existence turns into sheer attention."

Re-framing recent footage from two exquisite locations in Frogner/Oslo, Sam Renseiw pondered on the exuberance of the introverted ontological nature of space phenomenology. View the short visual meditation on the subject by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 628, 02'47'', 15.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of Norwegian blintz production. (Lum # 148, "oslo pancakes", 01'00'', 4.5Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features another interior space with fine chairs. (early patafilm # 96? [12.11.2005 post] Quicktime/mov)

On transpositions and voodle lexemes

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"The Transposition Hypothesis splits all derivation, lexical and inflectional alike, into three processes: lexical (L-) derivation, inflectional (I-) derivation, and morphological Voodle. Derivation involves operations on abstract lexical and inflectional category functions such as [+Plural, -Singular], [+Past, -Present], [+1st], and the like. Voodling is the purely visual realisation of the morphological categories of any Voodle base lexeme which has undergone such derivation. Its function is to distinguish Voodle stems which have undergone derivation from those which have not."

Transposing selected voodles from the webscreen to an exclusive out-door screening, Sam Renseiw joined the Lomeg_Rom's and the Lumiere founders for a cool event at "Kuba" in Oslo. View the transposed lexeme footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 627, 03'18'', 17.1Mb,Quicktime/mov- other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video(s) feature sights from the Vigeland Park and the new Opera in Oslo: (Lum # 145 " angry little boy"; Lum # 146 " opera roof walkers" and Lum # 147 " tourists, bicycle, dog"; All approx. 01'00'', 4.2MB, Quicktime/mov ) Click on the respective Lum # links to view each.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features an opera excerpt from an early patafilm (patafilm # 87?, 01'17'', (23.10.2005 Post]Quicktime/mov)

On the phenomenology of memory voodles

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"The voodles magnified the idea that I formed of certain points on the earth’s surface, making them more special, and in consequence more real. I did not then represent to myself towns, landscapes, historic buildings, as pictures more or less attractive, cut out here and there of a substance that was common to them all, but looked on each of them as on an unknown thing, different from all the rest, a thing for which my soul was athirst, by the knowledge of which it would benefit. How much more individual still was the character that they assumed from being designated by names, names that were only for themselves, proper names such as people have."

Dabbling around with more canal footage, Sam Renseiw indulged (once more) in blurred phenomenology, editing a Madelaine-like Gaussian blur layer into the passing-by of a classical Copenhagen setting. View the latest derive with home-made soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 625, 03'02'', 16.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video plays it by ear, or so it seems, in the hands of a Golden Days stylist. (Lum # 144, "golden days styling",00'48'' 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features the angel of history flight view. (patafilm # 342,[25.01.2007 post] 02'17'', 11.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)

On derive and psychogeographic voodle

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"One or more persons committed to the derive abandon, for an undefined period of time, the motives generally admitted for action and movement, their relations, their labor and leisure activities, abandoning themselves to the attractions of the terrain and the encounters proper to it....to be drawn by the solicitations of the terrain"

Abandoning himself to a short moment of derive, Sam Renseiw re-viewed some known, local locations from a different, drifting perspective. View the ensuing, abridged psychogeographic docu-voodle by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 624,04'01'',21.6Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video Features yet another recent drifting passage, fixed. (lum # 143, "water-housing" 00'56, 4.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a year old view from the same waterway. (patafilm # 549, [15.12.207 post]01'13'', 7.5MB, Quicktime/mov)