On praising Air on Fire & Heinrich

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"I like the feel of voodle noir a lot and it's all about a mood that comes about when people's desires lead them into areas where they're doing something against their conscience and, you know, then suffering the results. So it's about fear, and it's a night-time feeling and that - that thing creeps into my voodles, you know, quite a bit.. Voodle noir has a mood that everyone can feel. It's people in trouble, at night, with a little bit of wind and the right kind of music. It's a beautiful thing... There's so much darkness, and there's so much room to dream. They're mysteries, and there are people in trouble, and uneasiness."

Indeed: paraphrasing Lynch the day after his local opening, Sam Renseiw blended fresh footage from the award show at Heinrich's with glimpses of the air on fire... View various character unfold in voodle noir spaces by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 792, 02'44'', 41Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video continues patalab's inquisitive meta-lumiere viewing tradition. (lum#284," lynch-short", 01'00'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov)

On shift from general to specific spaces

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" Instead of viewing a landscape, the voodler(s) preferred to feel it, and with the feeling went a heightened perception of its beauty.Instead of comparing one landscape with another, came the surrender to the power of each, to the moments of individual delight; instead of dividing up the landscape into items, a struggle to express its unity [...] "The transformation of objects in space, or objects in time, /To objects outside either, but tactile, still precise... /It's always the same problem-/Nothing's more abstract, more unreal than what we actually see./The job is to make it otherwise.."

Quoting Wright, Sam Renseiw transformed recent footage from a not-so-far-away (urban)landscape into something more specific, while maintaing a sense of abstraction. View the slow-gliding, down-to-earth tinted and somewhat regressive (de)tour by clicking here or on the links above, remembering that the seemingly specific always remains generic, in more ways that not. (patafilm # 789b, 06'02'', 90MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene moment of pure quotidian, in a place luckily spared from BIG plans. (lum #283, 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)