Thursday 10 March 2011

Some more ideas....

1) the way in which a film strip becomes space when cut into pieces and pinned, in a grid-like fashion, on the wall of a dark room.

2) the way in which a moving picture loses its qualities of time and duration when turned into a single still - this film is projected onto the grid and exposes the film strips pinned on the wall.

3) the way in which this (sculptural) space transforms back into time as the single film fragments are re-assembled and fed once more through the projector.

4) and finally, the way in which time becomes (moving) image: the time it takes to "scan" or "read" the original film frame (still) and transforms it into new frames is the exact duration of motion picture.

Whilst thinking of this process it is easy to lose your mind.