SCALING presents the filmmaker painting in an act of double vision. As he paints a black rectangle on a section of wall, his double patiently undoes the work of the first, leaving the section of wall intact once again. The camera moves and the area delimited by the “filming” draws our attention to the frame ranging from the rectangular enclosure, which he hastens to blacken, to the camera's field of vision. This double gesture makes us notice the two aspects of the frame: positive and negative. Each of them is seen here as dependent on the other, inverse to the other and opposite to the next. The same amount of time has been given to the hidden as to the visible. Hoolboom's painting resembles an animated Rorschach test. What we understand in this Rorschach test is that each gesture leads to its erasure, each of us living in a balance between the visible and the invisible, while we risk paying tribute only to the former.
1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
16mm |
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screen |
1,37 (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
optical sound |
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rental fee |
23,00 € |
