To sweep away the world's dust

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" A broom has a number of meanings in Zen art. Monks spend a lot of time sweeping the temple grounds, and one was enlightened when he heard the sound a piece of tile striking a tree while he was sweeping; the whack from a woman's broom spurred Hakuin on to enlightenment; Jittoku, the sidekick of the Zen poet Kanzan, is almost always portrayed holding a broom, or symbolically represented by just a broom."

Practising a moment of Zen, Sam Renseiw is equally enlightened by the soft broom actions of a fair blonde maiden. View the un-foldings by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 435, 01'35'', 7MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at blip.tv)

On the phenomenology of roundness

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" And for a dreamer of images, what calm there is in the word round. How peaceful it makes one's mouth, lips, and the being of breath become round. Because this too should be spoken by a philosopher who believes in the poetic substance of word-images. An for the voodler who has broken every kind of "being-there", it is a joy to the eye to continue his deployment in pataphysics with the declaration "Das Dasein ist rund". Being is round."

While further investigating the poetics of various confined spaces, Sam Renseiw cuts corners in the kitchen once more, rounding off a short evening panorama on the phenomenology of roundness, in one whole, un-blured take. View the domestic piece by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 387, 01'18'', 6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv) Bonus link: Another poetic kitchen video- from Pepa, in Villa del Mar, Chile - can be viewed by clicking here.

Matter is dreamed in Reveries

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" Since reverie is always considered in terms of a relaxed consciousness, one usually ignores dreams of definite action, which I will designate as reveries of will. Furthermore, in the presence of reality, with all its forces and its terrestrial matter, it is easy to believe the the function of reality rules out the function of unreality, and easy to forget the unconscious impulses, the oneiric forces ceaselessly overflowing into conscious life."

As creative imagination has quite different functions from those of reproductive imagination, Sam Renseiw, paraphrasing Bachelard, proceeded to re-manipulate ordinary pixel reverie footage of spring. View the short animated poetic by clicking here, or on the links above. (patafilm # 391, 01'14'', 5.6 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)