Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Curtains, pencils, ballots & other images


click for video: Quicktime / Flash and .v4m versions at Blip.tv

"The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both... If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The voodler now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed..."

Paraphrasing Vaclav Havel with two quotes above, Sam Renseiw also captured fresh election footage yesterday. View the inconspicuous spacial continuity of the act of voting in a Danish parliamentary election - with synaesthetic closing subjectivity - by clicking here or on the links above. (patafilm # 530, 01'54'' 11.8 MB, Quicktime/mov - Flash and MPEG4 version for Pc at Blip.tv)

Today's Bonus Lumiere video likewise features the election, demonstrating that some people vote faster than others. (Lum # 51 " the ballot booth footage " 01'00'' 6.1MB, Quicktime/mov) View all other's fine Lumieres at Andreas's and Brittany's site.

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