On figure-ground perceptions

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" And the music itself was wonderful. At first it struck me as exaggerated, artificial, even incomprehensible. Little by little, though, with repeated listenings, a vague image formed in my mind--an image that had meaning. When I closed my eyes and concentrated, the music came to me as a series of whirlpools. One whirlpool would form, and out of it another would take shape. And the second whirlpool would connect up with a third. Those whirlpools, I realize now, had a conceptual, abstract quality to them ... With ears perked up and eyes closed, I imagined the existence of a certain place. This place I imagined was still incomplete. It was misty, indistinct, its outlines vague. Yet I was sure that something absolutely vital lay waiting for me there.."

While paraphrasing Murakami (again) Sam Renseiw, slowly shifting gear from splintered, stressfully decontructed workpatterns to (hopefuly) more friendly, northbound comming environments, composed a simple aller-retour-voodle from slightly older footage. View the figure-ground slide by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 788, 02'15'', 27.5MB, Quicktime/mov -other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video is a very straight forward illumination. [Lum # 281, "candela" , 01'00'', Quicktime/mov)

On [almost] inhabiting the Dolphin Hotel

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" Whatever it is one is seeking won't come in the form one is expecting...Thus I (also) often dream about the Dolphin Hotel. In these dreams, I'm there, implicated in some kind of ongoing circumstance. All indications are that I belong to this dream continuity....It seems more like a long, covered bridge. A bridge stretching endlessly through time. And there I am, in the middle of it. Someone else is there too...Time weighs down on me like an old, ambiguous dream. I keep on moving, trying to sleep through it... Another possibility is just plain voodling. Voodling on and on. Entering the world of voodles and never coming out. Living in voodles for the rest of time...."

Paraphrasing Murakami's dance steps and while taking the Possibility of an Island as just that, Sam Renseiw recalls a recent trip to Fionia by concocting footage left-over into a parabolic space, in triptych form. View yet another voodle-detournement exploring (again) morphologies of body and space by clicking here or on the links above.(patafilm # 784,02'35'',37Mb, Quikctime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature a fine Danish shoreline, secured for bathers. [Lum # 280, "ishøj beach" 01'00'', 12Mb, Quictkime/mov)

On visual metaphysical speculations

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" It was a day like a slow-motion video of twilight. Uneventful, to put it mildly. The lead grey of the sky mixed ever so slowly with black, finally blending into the night. Just another quality of melancholy. As if there were only two collectors in the world, grey and black, shifting back and forth at regular intervals..."

Meddling with bits and pieces of recent footage, Sam Renseiw montages further, still under the spell of Inland Empire, into the first part of Dance Dance Dance and quite puzzled by recent events. View the resulting blend, a mixture of gothic-voodle and deconstructed visual moving fragments, reassembled, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 539, 02'03'', 12.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other streaming versions at Blip.tv)