On reversibility as true symbolic form

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"This reversal leads us to...an inverse negative relation between the cinema and reality: it results from the loss of specificity which both have suffered. Cold collage, cool promiscuity, asexual engagement of two cold media which evolve in asymptotic line towards one another: cinema attempting to abolish itself in the absolute of reality, the real already long absorbed in cinematographic (or televised) hyperreality."

As Balconia never happens in winter - in Denmark- Sam Renseiw re-collected fragments of Baudrillard raised issues while capturing prime footage of pruning of the central weeping willow. View the drama unfolding by clicking here or view the same situation last spring. (patafilm # 380, 00'53'', 3.9 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On the ecstasy of communication

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"The simulacra have passed from the second to the third, from the dialectic of alienation to the giddiness of transparency. At the same time, after and with De la Séduction the dream of a transgression...and the nostalgia for a symbolic order of any kind, born out of the deep of primitive societies, or of our historical alienation, have been lost. With Séduction there is...no more recovered object, no more original desire..."

Capturing some obscene footage without any secret(s), dissolving completely in information and communication, Sam Renseiw speculates in a short (re)production of simulacra and seduction. View the readable, moving pro forma commodity by clicking here or enter the generalised interface above. (patafilm # 368, 02'51'', 25.7 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)