Traveling Footage Quiz # 01

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"The Patalab City Quiz gauges your knowledge on a particular city, its past and its present... A hotbed of contemporary politics, the city in today's video has always been in the news. So, if you have just kept your ears and eyes open, the Patalab City Quiz will be a cakewalk."

As Sam Renseiw is shifting location, busy with new traveling footage, Patalab launches a quiz: First one to guess the name of the city featured via the architectural clues on today's video-post, wins a small souvenir ! View the moving puzzle pieces by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 515, 01'57'', 11.6MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)
Quiz rules: the first commentary with the correct answer (city + street name) wins the souvenir - and a bonus souvenir, should you also mention the correct name(s) of the architects !

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a confined room with a lofty view. (Lum # 44: room with a view, 5.8MB, Quicktime/mov) For other's fine Lumieres, click here.

On The Persistence of Memory and Context

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"Memory has three different aspects: memory when it remembers things, imagination when it alters or imitates them, and invention when it gives them a new turn or puts them into proper arrangement and relationship. For these reasons the poets called memory the mother of the Muses."

"Not to know one's way in a city doesn't signify much. But to lose oneself in a city as one loses oneself in a forest calls for schooling" muses Sam Renseiw paraphrasing Benjamin, thus vaguely remembering a questionnaire session after walking the invisible reality show last November. Re-view the world as thing and image q/a video by clicking here or on the links above - and fill in the audio-blanks yourself- visual poetry and the continuity of silent pata-language... although: we must look straight at objects and not squint, for in that case the eyes do not see that at which they look, but rather distorts and confuses it...yet: the squint is crucial in providing the aslant view that makes the object new. (patafilm # 396,03'41'', 17.1MB, quicktime/mov - flash version at blip.tv)