On memory as place and interior journeys

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" Memory as a place, as a building, as a sequence of columns, cornices, porticoes, rooms enfilade. The body inside the mind, as if we were moving around in there, going from one place to the next [..] To realise that one's steps, by taking one nowhere, are taking one nowhere but into oneself...What we are really doing when we submerge in a voodle is thinking, and thinking in such a way that our thoughts (re)compose a journey.[..] and even if we do not leave our room, it has been a journey, and we might safely say that we have been somewhere, even if we don't know where it is."

After recently having [casually] passed through an animated series of didactic spaces, Sam Renseiw attempted to reconstruct bits of hastily recorded footage into another tale, altogether. View voodled concoction by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 783,03'44'' 49MB,Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

On nuptial party footage pecularities

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" For the person who wants to capture everything that passes before his eyes," Sam Renseiw would explain, even if nobody was listening to him any more, "the only coherent way to act is to voodle at least one voodle an hour, from the instant he opens his eyes in the morning to when he goes to sleep. This is the only way that the exposed smart cards will represent a faithful diary of our days, with almost nothing left out. If I were to start making documentaries, I’d see this thing through, even if it meant losing my mind.."

Situationist voodling is a cheerful enterprise, generating quantities of concentrated, special footage of particularly memorable events. Voodling does remain a fine endeavour to rediscover the sublime in the quotidian, and to continually re-assess notions of the morphologies of body and space. View Sam's latest, almost classic, hand&foot(r)apture, tripthych voodle from attending a recent wedding, by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 772, 05'24'', 69Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a more lonesome endeavour. (Lum#272,"kickback at funny house" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quicktime/mov - .m4v)

On the aesthetic significance of the face

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"The eye epitomises the face in mirroring the soul. At the same time, it accomplishes its finest, purely formal end as the interpreter of mere appearances, which knows no going back to any pure intellectuality behind the appearance. It is precisely this achievement which the eye gives us the intimation, indeed the guarantee, that the artistic problems of pure perception and of the pure sensory image of things - if perfectly solved - would lead to the solution of those other problems which involve soul and appearance. Appearance would then become the veiling and unveiling of the soul"

Pondering on the task of creating a maximum of change of total expression by a minimum of change of detail, Sam Renseiw visited a royal cafe complete with adjacent local chinaware displays. View the cut-up footage including impressions of served hybrid smushi constructs by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 592, 02'34'', 13.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a serene, back-lit scene of smushi ordering. (lum # 108 "the smushi attendant" 00'52'', 4.3MB, Quicktime/mov) More: info on the fine Lumiere manifesto here and view other's at the main Lumiere site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play-supplement features the entrance to a differnt space in an episode of the docu-soap voodle from Signa's "Circle Camp" performance. (patafilm # 479,[22.08.2007 post]03'49'', 19.5MB,Quicktime/mov.)

On embodied semiotics and images

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"Whether or not images are inherently more polysemous than words, it is very common to find (and seek) words around exhibited or published images--titles, labels, placards, guides, "the artist's words" and so on. Classically, however, the words are peripheral to the work and confined to background information and perhaps a few interpretive hints and pointers to notable features of the work. Voodlers are notoriously sparing of words, preferring to let the image "speak for itself."

Continuing the visual investigations of serendipituous footage, Sam Renseiw probes the extent of silent language in cut-up imagery. View the embodied spaces and surfaces by clicking here or on the links above (patafilm # 590, 02'27'', 13.2MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a feed, in a pastoral setting. (Lum# 106,"pastoral bird feeding" 01'00'', 5.3MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features a fine skate run through Copenhagen, with lots of sights. Enjoy! (classic vlog #6,[19.08.2006 post] 05'39'', 26 MB, Quicktime/mov)

The lapse of time between two instances

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" When pondering the nature of memory, the one thing to note is the lapse of time between two instances: one is the event or state of what is remembered and the other is the act of remembering. This temporal gap is a striking aspect of memory, somewhat in the similar sense that spatial dimensions, along with other relevant physical conditions, is an integral part of psychological explanation of visual perception."

Attending a silent animated journey to an abandoned hotel in a slowly crystallising dense wilderness, Sam Renseiw momentarily re-investigates Ann Lislegaard's hybrid space from a back seat. View the flattened imagery by clicking here or on the appropriate links above. (patafilm # 377, 01'48'', 8.3 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)