On evidence of things unseen

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“ Diversity encourages creativity, while repetition anaesthetises it. Often architectural projects are too homogeneous, sometimes because of a self-centred desire to see buildings apart from their context, sometimes because of an exaggerated aesthetics commitment which tends to precious ‘architects’ architecture. But whatever the cause, such homogeneity makes it difficult for the voodler to add anything of their own, and we lose that rich resource of popular creativity which can transform a space into a place and give it life…”

Paraphrasing Lucien K, Sam Renseiw wanders through a recently opened exhibition, trying to find other footholds than the well meant attempts of Kroll-like repetitions reversing rich resources of architectural creativity into -probably -new homogenities... View the footage unfold with a UFO takeoff into urban space & other unseen evidences by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 776, 05'25'', 63MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a quiet anticipation.(Lum # 276 " anticipation" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On corporeal form in voodles

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" The form cannot desert matter, because it is inseparable from it, and matter itself cannot be deprived of form, but I have proposed that it is voodle which posesses of its very nature the function of multiplying itself and diffusing itself instataneously in all directions... Therefore voodle is not a form subsequent to corporeity, but it is coporeity itself. "

Pondering on light matters and left-over footage, Sam Renseiw montaged a surprising sequense of interior and exterior overlaps. View the sequential voodle with incorporations by clicking here or on the links above. ( patafilm # 725, 03'18'', 44.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a simple ceremony, in transformed urban setting, with simultaneously incorporated views. (lum # 228, 01'00'', "ceremony assistance footage" 12.9MB, Quicktime/mov)

On further ground footage

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"Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious ground implosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the voodler is called in to somehow dissolve the mystery."

Partying here and there, Sam Renseiw recently encountered video footage spread over concrete flooring, enabling yet more crude and silly footage. Step in by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 505, 01'07'',8MB, Quicktime/mov - Direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video features a mute bossa-nova band, complete with bjork backdrop. (Lum # 38 the bossa-nova band, 01'00'', Quicktime/mov) Other's Lumieres there.

On odd numbers and footage

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"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments."

indeed, muses Sam Renseiw: it could have been a fine jubilee for # 500 patafilm...a fine gained, high pixelled and colourful video. Instead, just some sloppy, dark and corny odd footage posted again. Yet, no worries: more to come, as patalab's videos migrate on to some larger screening, next week. Click here or on the links above to unravel...(patafilm # 500, 01'27'', 8.8MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming at blip.tv)

On the performance of creative acts

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"All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds her contribution to the creative act."

Voodling aloof at the recent Art-Money party, Sam Renseiw caught a glimpse of exquisite footage amidst myriad of Art-Money samples drenched in down-tempo and glitter. View the upgraded, lofty focus in the large basement by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 498, 02'47'', 15.4MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

On rough and sliced-cut footage

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" i / my feet / and you / your feet / standing / our feet / standing / i could say other things / about other things. "

"If we scrutinize closely what is done in counting an aggregate or number of things, we are led to consider the ability of the mind to relate things to things, to let a thing correspond to a thing, or to represent a thing by a thing, an ability without which no thinking is possible.." paraphrases Sam Renseiw, while slice-cutting fresh footage into a voodle after an ceremonious academic opening. View the footage by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 492, 01'28'', 8.9MB, Quicktime/mov - direct streaming for Pc at blip.tv)

On the missing sock phenomenon

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"But the fact is, on that night, I felt I’d come a little closer to understanding the mystery of the missing sock phenomenon – I’d actually discovered one hiding amongst my jeans and t-shirts. Perhaps they didn’t circle the globe in space after all, they where just marching.."

Concentrating periodically on subtle and utterly banal matters, Sam Renseiw pondered for a moment on the mystery of the missing sock phenomenon, editing some seemingly lost footage, re-found, re-told. View the step by step clarification by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 452, 00'57'', 4.3MB, Quicktime/mov - Streaming Flash version at blip.tv)
Fast track, short and mute Bonus Lumiere video here (Lum # 10, 00'32'', 2.4MB, Quicktime/mov)

We All Get It In the End

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“Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another. It’s a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.”

Waiting to experience the Shortbus hype, Sam Renseiw caught some hand-held footage under a staircase, while Pro Forma guest(ing). View the graphically explicit moves by clicking here or enter the body embrace above. (patafilm # 372, 01'47'', 2.4MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

On footage and leg

" I stepped to the side to make way, slipped on the ice, rolled on my ankle, and went splat, back first, onto the footpath. I was embarrassed and confused and tried to get up and stop the fuss immediately. Then I realized something was wrong. Something was wrong with my left leg. Something indeed had given. It was my leg. I had broken it. But at this stage I didn't know. One hour later they told me I had a broken leg and I was going to be in a cast for six weeks. I remember thinking, "Oh no, that doesn't fit. I haven't got time to do that. I was on my way to Paris..”

Some dark Voodoo at work on Sam Renseiw, out of Vaterpas balance. Yet the event might result in more video postings the next weeks…
Click here to get on the feet, or enter directly above. (01’3’’, 5,7 MB, mov/quicktime) // rev.01.10.15