On auto-focus kinoeye in dance voodle(s)

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“ There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through voodle ...It is not one's business to determine how good a voodle is, nor how it compares with other expression. It is one's aim to keep the voodle channel open, clearly and directly ...One can thus look at dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to be energized, as the viewer, into keener awareness of the vigour, the mystery, the humour, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the main function of the pataphysic dance voodle recording ”

Still amazed at the apparent automatic keen kino eye capacity of alternative focus by his voodling tool, Sam Renseiw is delighted to capture the languishing sharpness of new choreographed moves, proof that some conceptual wisdom did trickle through the etude, as stated in the synopsis presentation. View a moving excerpt by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 727, 03'42'', 52Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features further delicate moves from the same dance piece. Enjoy. (lum # 230, " vanilla moves " 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On perception in moving pictures

"...Duality, I suggest, is the essence of representation. Ordinarily one can perceive both the picture as a thing and the thing pictured. There is optical information to specify the surface as such and, in the same array, information to specify a quite different layout of surfaces. There are thus two concurrent levels of surface perception and two corresponding levels of depth or space perception. One is the space in which the picture lies and the other is the space in which the objects pictured lie."

Pondering on how fast technology actually can upset some (older) conflicting theories of what a picture might be, Sam Renseiw recorded two short moving pieces on the morphology of body in space. The first one, uncut,is animated by the camera's sensitive auto focus. Click here on on the above links to activate. (patafilm # 724, 01'03, 14.6MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv) archive.org version here

The second video, apparently a simple picture, reveals definitely more complicated layerings than apparent at first glance, complete with in-build visual technological glitches. Today's Bonus Lumiere Video condenses many spaces in a flatness with added sign-language (lum # 227 " almost perfect flat-screen" 01'00'', 13.3MB, Quicktime/mov)