On motivated conceptual metaphor mapping

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“Reminiscences, even extensive ones, do not always amount to an autobiography. For autobiography has to do with time, with sequence and what makes up the continuous flow of life. Here, I am talking of a space, of moments and discontinuities. For even if months and years appear here, it is in the form they have in the moment of recollection. This strange form -- it may be called fleeting or eternal -- is in neither case the stuff that life is made of....yet, the camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.”

After gathering some footage from his exosomatic memory, Sam Renseiw concocted a moving cognitive map, composed as a diptych; View the unfolding of profane moves in a sacred crimson path followed by a complementary green spatial botanical traverse by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 659, 04'09'', 33.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a mute, didactic and multi-framed composition, conveying the making of an architectural masterpiece. (Lum # 176, "sverre's didactics" 0'59'', 6MB, Quicktime/mov )

On the art of memory mapping

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"In that Empire, the Art of cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Disproportionated Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds built a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided accurately with it."

Further mapping the tracing of his eye, Sam Renseiw encountered some memory moves i real time and framed them, with two slight cuts. View the reconfigurations of slightly inconspicuous variations by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 403, 01'11'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On witnessing and tracing with the eye

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"Dancers, choreographers, writers and dance voodlers spend a lot of time looking, witnessing, tracing with their eyes, mapping with their gear. They are constantly taking in and trying out. Rehearsing. Making new space in their bodies for the writing down of performance. This act, in the words of Julia Kristeva is an “ordeal.”

Yet, the simple act of witnessing basic choreographic moves, casually framed, opens up confined spaces with their own liberating re-imaginations, muses Sam Renseiw. View the short quasi pataphysical footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 405, 01'30'', 6.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)