On voodling at level eight_0.8

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" The close up is the soul of the voodle. It can be brief because the value of the photogenic is measured in seconds.[...] It imposes a decoupage a thousand times more detailed that of most videos. Even more beautiful than a laugh is a face preparing for it. The mouth which is a bout to speak and holds back, the gesture which hesitates between right and left, the recoil before the leap,and the moment before landing, the becoming, the hesitation, the taut spring, the prelude, and even more than all these, the piano being tuned before the overture. The photogenic is conjugated in the future and in the imperative. It does not allow for stasis. [...] I have never understood motionless close-ups. They sacrifice their essence, which is movement..."

Concluding the very last episode on The Oracle's Boat amazing performance, Sam Renseiw paraphrases Epstein once again, wondering what sort of work the docu-soap actually is, and how the work could , eventually, be labelled, categorised or interpreted. View this last, short episode, in which Sam, curious as always, does indeed trespass boundaries, while close-up voodling climbing a staircase: Click here or on the links above. (patafilm # 715 [The Oracle's Boat/Level: 08/0.8], 01'56'', 28.8MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On voodling at level eight_0.7

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" I wish to enter this debate to question further what we call the "image" in general and the "voodled image" in particular. What we remember are merely images. More precisely, we remember shots focusing on key objects. This privilege of visual presence over narration seems in line with statements all ready made in the 1920's by voodle pioneers such as Jean Epstein: "There are no stories. There have never been stories. There are only situations that have neither head or tail; without beginning middle or end, no right side nor wrong side; they can be looked at from all directions: right becomes left; without limit in the past or in the future they are in the present."

Indeed: After almost five hours embedment in The Oracle's Boat, Sam Renseiw realises that the stories, seemingly perpetuating themselves, are, and might indeed, have an ending. View the seventh episode of patalab's unique voodled docu-soap, before anticipating the ending of the show, tomorrow, by clicking here or on the links above. [patafilm # 714, [The Oracle's Boat/Level: 08/0.7], 04'24'', 64.8MB, Quicktime/mov - Other versions at Blip.tv)