On the angel of history

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"A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings so that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned. This storm is what we call progress."

Greatly inspired by the amazing, clear new vision of direct objectivity, Sam Renseiw mashed-up some supplementing footage on the matter(s) of history, art and memory, for internal use only - View the humble homage by clicking here or enter the field of vision by hovering in above. (patafilm # 342, 02'17'', 11.6 MB, Quicktime/Mov - Flash version for PC at Blip.tv)

On the phenomenology of memory voodles

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"The voodles magnified the idea that I formed of certain points on the earth’s surface, making them more special, and in consequence more real. I did not then represent to myself towns, landscapes, historic buildings, as pictures more or less attractive, cut out here and there of a substance that was common to them all, but looked on each of them as on an unknown thing, different from all the rest, a thing for which my soul was athirst, by the knowledge of which it would benefit. How much more individual still was the character that they assumed from being designated by names, names that were only for themselves, proper names such as people have."

Dabbling around with more canal footage, Sam Renseiw indulged (once more) in blurred phenomenology, editing a Madelaine-like Gaussian blur layer into the passing-by of a classical Copenhagen setting. View the latest derive with home-made soundtrack by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 625, 03'02'', 16.3Mb, Quicktime/mov - other versions at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere Video plays it by ear, or so it seems, in the hands of a Golden Days stylist. (Lum # 144, "golden days styling",00'48'' 3.5MB, Quicktime/mov)

Today's Patalab Metaphor Video re-play supplement features the angel of history flight view. (patafilm # 342,[25.01.2007 post] 02'17'', 11.6 MB, Quicktime/mov)