About the missing middle reel

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"Because of the missing reels at the beginning and the end, this was a viewing experience that felt rushed and incomplete. Some of the audience let out a gentle laugh at the final intertitle which summed up a large remainder of the plot in a pithy sentence or two."

While still wondering about the disparate nature of jump-cuts in shorter video pieces, Sam Renseiw caught a serene spring scene in a pastoral urban setting and subtracted a tiny part. View the prospective by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 415, 00'57'', 4.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On distantiation and jump cuts

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"Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening is poetically, pataphysicly reworked."

Voodling further around, Sam Renseiw mashed-up a short piece of red car footage into intricate jump cuts, complete with soundtrack remix by Polo& Solo's mesmerising scratch-Baudelaire. View the moving raod-movie still by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 392a, 02'07'', 9.5 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)