On chamber(work) and oblique conversations

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"On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room...Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together."

We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! exclaims Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Musil, having concotted an oneric voodle with left over summer footage; (We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture). View the day-dream montage with sound-mash-up from a superb recent podcast by Sanderson + Pinsent. Click here or on the links above to view. (patafilm # 617, 03'04'',16.3MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv.)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a double, almost simultaneous view on more swiftly moving matters. (Lum # 137,"double image, racing", 00'57'', 4.4Mb, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features another interior, this time with a short story on memory and body. (patafilm # 419, [30.05.2007 post] 01'50'', 8.7 Mb, Quicktime/mov)

On reflected reality portraiture

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"...What he thinks of anything will always depend on some possible context - nothing is, to him, what it is; everything is subject to change, in flux, part of a whole, of an infinite number of wholes presumably adding up to a superwhole that, however, he knows nothing about. So every answer he gives is only a partial answer, every feeling only an opinion, and he never cares what something is, only 'how' it is."

“Reality can only be portrayed when one constructs it,” ponders Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Gursky and reflecting on Musil's "The Man Without Qualities". View the cut-up docu-voodle with fine, intriguing soundtrack overlay from Gurdonark by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 616, 02'03'', 12.4Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a quiet, intense contemplative intermezzo of a space within a space. (Lum #136, "space in space",00'46'',3.3Mb, Quicktime/mov.) As always, fine other's Lumieres at the main site.

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features diverse paraphernalia and a felt suit.(patafilm#217, 02'17''[23.07.2008 post], 10.2 MB, Quicktime/mov.