Sunday, April 18, 2010

On capturing kinetics passing by



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" Consciousness is in itself an act, the human act. It is a lively, full act. Even if the action which follows, which ought to have followed or should have followed, remains in suspense, the consciousness-as-act is still completely positive or kinetic..."

Just passing by: a chance encounter, a beautiful morning; a training exercise for a grand day, a moving work-load. View the kinetic poetics stretched into a longer sequence by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 763, 03'30'', 74MB, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Bliptv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video features a majestic stand-still, on the day. (Lum # 265,"dannebrog, 16.04.2010", 01'00'', 13MB, Quikctime/mov)

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Sunday, April 01, 2007

On reversibility as true symbolic form


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"This reversal leads us to...an inverse negative relation between the cinema and reality: it results from the loss of specificity which both have suffered. Cold collage, cool promiscuity, asexual engagement of two cold media which evolve in asymptotic line towards one another: cinema attempting to abolish itself in the absolute of reality, the real already long absorbed in cinematographic (or televised) hyperreality."

As Balconia never happens in winter - in Denmark- Sam Renseiw re-collected fragments of Baudrillard raised issues while capturing prime footage of pruning of the central weeping willow. View the drama unfolding by clicking here or view the same situation last spring. (patafilm # 380, 00'53'', 3.9 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version at Blip.tv)

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