On some artfull conditions in voodles

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"The necessary condition for an Voodle is sight," Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: "We voodle things in order to drive them out of our minds..." My Voodles are a way of shutting my eyes..."What the Voodle reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the voodle mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially... yet, a Voodle is always invisible, it is not it that we see."

Remembering Barthes considerations that "the age of voodling corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public", (or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private), Sam Renseiw concocted footage from two recent, semiprivate events, into a distinct diptych voodle. View some private glimpses of jump-cutted reality by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 806, 02'24'', 41MB, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet moment of winter after sunset-glow. (lum# 297,"moon-house-boat"15Mb, 00'59'', Quicktime/mov)

On spatial signifier in voodles

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"...when the spatial signifiers are given wide play -as opposed to the practice in what are know as "static, theatrical" videos - voodles create spatial relations that implicate an ever expanding set of spaces in a process akin to what Barthes calls a "metonymic skid" of space: each space adding to its neighbour some new trait, some new departure. It is at this point that a (Renseiw) voodle becomes truly "spacial", that one of its narrative acts is the creation of space. The expanding (contracting, pulsation) array of elated spaces is as much part of the voodle text as the characters, their movements, their words and it constitutes a narrative in combination with them."

Indeed, acquits Sam Renseiw, pointing out, however, that his main aim in the act of voodling centres in the (re)creation of space, with attentive care to relatively benign architectural matters. View the recent voodled concoction of spaces by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 756, 04'50'', 57MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features moving, multi-generations in [a] confined art space. (Lum # 259,"body_space morphology" 01'09''(!), 14MB, Quicktime/mov)

As most voodles seem to be devoid of characters, here are two more Lumieres crammed with moving figures. XtraLumiere 1 click here, Xtra Lumiere 2 click here;(Lum # 257 & lum # 258, 01'00''each, ca. 11.8MB, Quicktime/mov)

On voodling degree zero

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" What is attempted [in some voodles] is to eliminate the intention to establish relationships and to produce instead an explosion of images…since…modern video…destroys the spontaneously functional nature of images, and leaves standing only its lexical basis... It initiates a discourse full of gaps and full of lights, filled with absences and over-nourishing signs, without foresight or stability of intention, and thereby so opposed to the didactic, social function of vision…"

Simple didactics can sometimes reveal themselves to be overwhelming, especially in administrated flatly in large quantities, muses Sam Renseiw, voodling feeverishly and sloppily about the basic intricacies of new editing software. View the effect tinted cut-up, with intricate soundtrack re-mix by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 722, 02'47'', 42MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features some apparently simple, basic moves. (Lum # 224, " classic footage" 00'56'', 9MB, Quicktime/mov)