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Author Topic: 'PJs' cut up and mangle 16mm shorts Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-23-2004 01:59 PM                        'Projexorcism'. quote: 'Projexorcism' website Film often breaks or passes through the projection gate in a manner inconsistant with film preservation. At least they're honest - even if they can't spell!  |  IP: Logged Jon Miller Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 973 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-23-2004 11:46 PM                     They're using Hell and Bowell 2592 autoshredders (TQ-IIIs on your side of the pond, Leo). Enough said! If they were doing their thing with beet-red Eastmancolor prints smelling like strong vinaigrette, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But if the educationals they are trashing are worth something to a collector even if scratched-up and splicy, on those idiots!  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-24-2004 03:37 AM                        of course i hope the films they use aren't one-of-a-kind or desired by collectors. but at least they are making art out of them. they could be sitting in landfill. in a way, their work affirms the viability of film by utilizing its physical properties in an abnormal way, a way that video can't mimic. carl  |  IP: Logged Ron Yost Master Film Handler Posts: 344 From: Paso Robles, CA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 12-24-2004 02:01 PM                     They're following the tradition of Thomas Wilfred and his "Clavilux", though not as abstractly. Kinetic-light art has been around, in many forms (and many patents), for a long time. Whitney's mechanical bombsight-computer 'slit-scan' machine, used in Kubrick's "2001", being one fairly modern variation. It's nice to see there are still people experimenting with light. Conventional film projection is, itself, kinetic-light art, being ephemeral. Shut the projector off and it vanishes. It is, though, repeatable and 'static', in that it's a 'fixed' program, projected in the same manner (nearly) on the same fixed-surface over and over. They're breaking with the static aspect and attempting to disperse and fragment the images and content, re-combining them in unexpected and arbitrary ways. In any event, it's just one more way of presenting the Magic that is film. I'd love to experience one of their 'happenings', as we used to call such things. It's a little ironic that there's a link back here on one of their pages, so they're fully aware what they're doing would disturb conventional film-handlers and collectors. Ron Yost  |  IP: Logged

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