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“Juxtaposition of seeing and sounding, sky and stone
and all that’s in between. A short walk in an alleyway, to hear vision
sounding images, blessed with light and darkness.”—D.S.
“A hand processed film in which thousands of people climb a rocky mountain terrain. The destination and purpose of their ascension remains unclear. A vague, mysterious and unsettling pilgrimage fraught with unknown intentions. The title The Coming Race is after a Victorian novel by E.G.E. Bulwer-Lytton, about a race of people who live under a mountain.”—B.R.
“Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the U.S. Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Turns into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D landscape before people return and the scene is righted again. Some laws surely have been broken here.”—K.J.
The soundstorm of Lightning Bolt and third ear music of Joseph Grimm creates a trance inducing sonic Pentecost as initiates writhe and foam in ascent.
“From a mere technical point of view the TV/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For Energie! an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30,000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.”—T.F.
“Where the big ones break and the undercurrents push-pull an ancient, silent tune.”—F.W.
“It was all started by a Red Robin who one day in the spring, obsessively went after his double in the large mirror at the end of our garden. It turned into a strange revisiting of the framed image’s shape/s and behavior (after my 1975 film Light Shaft). Just having fun with the surrounding consequences regarding storage, openings, motion and nature among others.”—V.G.
“I have several English-style windows and this and a tree in winter have caused me to think about Fox-Talbot’s window—his first image, perhaps. Carried out, as usual, with the technique—but perhaps it would be better to say the discipline—of the flicker, which is “the undulation, trembling, quivering, flashing, sparkling weakly” of the dictionary, in short everything of the cinèsi fosforescentica. Drawn from a thin monograph (it’s worth saying from typographic ink where there had been silver salts) I tried to shake my window using [Fox Talbot’s] where there had been a tree in winter. Cross-dissolving between real and not-real, between fixed and animated images of his lively works, seemed to me to reconstruct what would have perhaps happened to Fox-Talbot, filming my window in winter.”—P.G.
“The film is composed of two consecutive, partial, time-lapse records of the Transit of Venus, when Venus passed across the Sun on June 8th, 2004.
Transits of Venus are rare and currently occur in a pattern that repeats every 243 years, with pairs of transits eight years apart separated by long gaps of 121.5 years and 105.5 years. Before 2004 the last pair of transits of Venus were in December 1874 and December 1882. The second of the current pair will be on June 6th, 2012.
Although the film was shot with a very small aperture, reduced shutter opening and several layers of neutral density filter, resulting in a black sky, the sun nevertheless remains contrastingly dazzling, and Venus, consequently, is obliterated. These two short sequences are contextualized with data detailing the various technical parameters that determine the peculiarity of the image.”—N.H.
"Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. This work is neither a metaphor nor a symbol, but is feeling towards a fact in the midst of perception, which time flows through. Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere in action allow the universe to speak for itself.
The Sublime is Now. Amor Fati!" — J.L.
“The astronomers announced the observed abundance.
Philo of Byzantium observed that bang.
The fresh mythology
of who is powerful and why
Before the sun rises on Sunday, the search.
home.)
Where is home cowboy? My mind of universes erupting continuously,
observed by stellar matter
on Wednesday morning in the universe.
Human exploration: footprints and gods,
One small step for a man, and it was brief.
Testosterone is paid and left hungry,
and fell away towards the lingering concerns.
The Sun constantly fills space with
mystery tunes migrating outward,
away, out of harms way.
So galaxies of the Virgo cluster glow like years…
It was inner space, the universe inside time
years, years ago
Astronomers have gazed out at the compass of all existence
For years they found nothing
cause no one had looked.
Humanity has been fascinated by truths
We want to understand the seen
Object of Desire,
mirages. In each case, astronomers say, of dark and luminous matter
the exotic ghost-action
the universe, the news, knocks out Pluto and Xena
Genesis and the Sun cancel out
We are, as fallible
equivalent of a candles flicker,
out there. Until it ends.”
—from The Science Times series by Jeanne Liotta, 2007
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