On Vine as combinatorials

vine compilation # 8

 "Vining is a combinatorial game that pursues the possibilities implicit in its own material… The short video footage captures places the voodler//viner inside a strange loop of production: The so-called personality of the voodler//viner exists within the very act of voodling//vining: it is the product and instrument of the video capturing process. The voodler//viner's creative act becomes one of re-creation, in the sense of both a playful act and a derivative one…" 

Paraphrasing Calvino's "Cybernetic & Ghosts", Sam Renseiw, in a state of calm OCD, ammassed a great deal of short Vines lately. As this end-of-year's treat, enjoy the comprressed, chronological compilation by cliking on the icon above to re-view the undfolding of body-space morphologies. [vinecompilation # 8, 948MB, 27'22'', Quicktime/mov - other versions at blip.tv]

A happy new year to all viewers. More next year.  Best Sam R.

On interstitial space(s) in wunderkammer

"…I can easily believe, that there are more invisible than visible Beings in the universe. But who shall describe for us their families? and their ranks and relationships and distinguishing features and functions? What they do? where they live? The human mind has always circled around a knowledge of these things, never attaining it. I do not doubt, however, that it is sometimes beneficial to contemplate, in thought, as in a Picture, the image of a greater and better world; lest the intellect, habituated to the trivia of daily life, may contract itself too much, and wholly sink into trifles. But at the same time we must be vigilant for truth, and maintain proportion, that we may distinguish certain from uncertain, day from night…"

"If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a Voodle presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that Voodle in his browser when he awake - Aye, what then? " paraphrases Renseiw presenting one of his latetest concotions (belated wunderkammer footage, apparently)

On closing-up

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" The close-up has no equivalent in a narrative fashioned of words. Literature is totally lacking in any working method to enable it to isolate a single vastly enlarged detail in which one face comes forward to underline a state of mind or stress the importance of a single detail in comparison with the rest. As a narrative device, the ability to vary the distance between the camera and the object may be a small thing indeed, but it makes for a notable difference between cinema and oral or written narrative, in which the distance between language and image is always the same."

Season Greetings with a quote from Calvino: with everybody apparently busy on facebook or elsewhere, Sam Renseiw (still) keeps on voodling short voodles to be posted on his antiquated blog. Thank you for watching to those of you still hanging around: very much obliged and grateful: click here on the image or the links above. (patafilm # 759b, 01'40'', 14MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

On space surveys with spherical object(s)

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"...there is a subtlety and complexity to the works that in part is underpinned by the maker’s undivided preoccupation with the seemingly unremarkable. Its is the nuances of space and time and of attention lavished on things that are perhaps designed not to be looked or that seek out obscurity that elevates these everyday musings to a heightened poetic state. Patalab is as an ongoing project with seemingly no declared beginning, middle or end has echoes of Marcel Proust’s work and its continual obsessive return to the same territory, to the same places spaces and thoughts and the passage through them and back again."

Moving around new territories with the corridor ease of a venerable lounge lizard, Sam Renseiw trails the interiors of a renown research establishment, lobbying his way through the tangle, via the innermost to the viewing theatre, to proceed with a visionary divulging. View the rambling through the maze with spherical object(s) and juxtaposed sites, by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 741, 03'56'', 54MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a didactic, moving cinematic sitting. (Lum # 241,"bande a part" 01'00'', 12MB, Quicktime/mov)

On looking back at re-presentation

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"... Occasionally legs and feet emerge in front of the camera as do overhead voices on the soundtrack but these are not voodles about people but about the resonance of space. Building day after day these two to three minute works create a library or repository of images from which the viewer can draw or withdraw. There is a willful denial of narrative progression and the audience is called upon to realize that they are re-tracing their own steps; going back to the same familiar passage. Forced to confront everything again till eventually seeing it all for the first time. "

Just returned from a trip to London, Sam Renseiw, overwhelmed by recorded footage, is busy editing the coming patafilms; Exhausted by the recent first public outing at a renown research centre and followed by an encore by his alter-ego, Sam hopes to maintain the future qualitative output of patamatic cinema. View the first footage from London by clicking here or on he links above. (patafilm # 736, 00'57'', 12.5MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a gliding ride. (lum # 236b,"your tube" 00'42'', Quicktime/mov)

On body-space morphologies in docu-voodles

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" With a solid base in the documentary approach to reality,spacetwo:patalab aims at building bridges to a wide range of related art forms on the music scene and in the visual arts. This exploration of the interaction and interfaces between different media and cultural traditions emphasises the constant evolution of the docu-voodle genre, and creates a space for inspiration and dialogue between creative forms & the latest concepts of expanded cinema."

Paraphrasing a catalogue text for the just opened CPHDOX, Sam Renseiw concocted and stretched a bout of condensed local urban footage. View the extension with added shape that has held me sounds by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 733, 05'00, 62MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video feature another piece of Copenhagen sort of refined Netezza Urbana. (Lum # 233," dome refill" 00'57'', 11.8MB, Quicktime/mov )

Beauty will be convulsive or not at all

" What attracts me in such a manner of seeing is that, as far as the eye can see, it recreates desire . . . It is only by making evident the intimate relation linking the two terms real and imaginary that I hope to break down the distinction, which seems to me less and less well founded, between the subjective and the objective. . . . You only have to know how to get along in the labyrinth."

A failed entry by Sam R. to last year's videomarathon. Watch it here or smell the flowers…