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by Paul CLIPSON
2012 / Super 8mm / color / sound / 1S / 10' 30
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Music by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma Orpheus meets the bird with the crystal plumage. Filmed in the Tenderloin night of San Francisco, this study of the eye in vertiginous color and darkness, part drip painting, part contour drawing, part cubist collage, broadens and intensifies an on-going exploration into the various in-camera processes of handheld, small gauge filmmaking in the optic field, and the rhythmic and graphic relationships of multilayered imagery to music-making and dreams. ANOTHER VOID is the result of a continuing practice of working in Super 8mm film, utilizing all of the format's limitations and benefits to maximum effect. The process of in-camera editing, in this case, the layering of a progression of hundreds of shots over each other, at any moment up to five or six images at a time, yields an array of unexpected, collaged compositions, largely unplanned for specifically, but achieved with a particular design in mind. There are six splices in the film, the rest of the edits and all of the superimpositions being performed in-camera. The overall structure of the film resembles a piece of music, like that of the sculptural soundtrack by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Like the rhythms and layered phrases of his composition suggesting a far-reaching but indistinct space, the film’s visual superimpositions process a way of describing the world through gesture and repetition, an act of filming before one sees, of making choices both out of an obsession for shape, color and texture. The obscure space of urban night provides saturated palettes of color, from ATM machines, neon signs and garish alcohol advertisements. All of these found objects cluster and converge within a series of overlapping shots, becoming new compositions, and creating alternative views of the city at night. A city where the eye not only records, but inhabits the criss-crossing streets like a floating sphere within a celestial metropolis. Super 8mm film transferred to 16mm by Bill Brand.
1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
16mm |
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screen |
1,37 - Standard (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
separate digital sound |
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rental fee |
37,00 € |
