Friday, August 24, 2007

The inhabitation of fiction - episode five B


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"The basis of SIGNA´s performance work is installation art. Mostly working site-specific, redifining and staging abandoned buildings and camp sites creating enigmatic timeless environments for the audience to explore and to live in."

With the passing of time, Sam Renseiw starts confusing the 15 hours spend during two visits at The Circle Camp... successions of rituals blend with pastoral settings, fleeting encounters with various members of the Martha Rubin Society, merge, with other characters...in a pele-mele fragmented puzzle of footage, imbibed with evocative, looping chants and distinct melodies. View a short moment of condensed et in arcadia ego complete with paraphernalia details by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 480b, 04'033'', 21.4MB, Quicktime/mov - streaming view-in-direct for PC users with obsolete Windows configurations via marvellous blip.tv, as always)

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Tuesday, May 08, 2007

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)

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