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| Synopsis of a clip from ''The Paul Ryan Show: In Conversation with Rock Hudson'' 1982
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| In the 1982 US television special, ''The Paul Ryan Show: In Conversation with Rock Hudson'', a 57 year old Hudson recounts a recent experience of happening upon the 1956 Hollywood film ''GIANT'' on television, in which he starred at the age of 29. He is sitting to the right of Ryan in a sparsely dressed set that consists of just two wooden-framed armchairs upon an oval stage, set against a black backdrop. The actor begins the story with an air of tentativeness with the line, 'I must tell you something interesting... perhaps not interesting, perhaps boring'.
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| He proceeds to express his dislike for watching films on television, due to the interruptions of commercial breaks and expresses further discomfort in watching himself. He explains that, with aid of ageing makeup, his portrays a character in three stages of his life: as a young man in his twenties, as middle-aged and as a seventy year old. This short anecdote culminates with Hudson tuning in at the point his character's portrayed age is the same as his actual age. He checks his reflection in a mirror and discovers that the ageing make up matches his current appearance exactly, right down to the patches of grey in his hair.
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| A steel plate measuring 62 cm by 31 cm is fixed to a wall at eye level. The surface is scratched and dull. A sequence of lines are etched into it in a semicircular formation, emanating from a single point, 3 millimetres in from the centre of its left edge. The first is 30cm long and straight. Following in a clockwise direction, the next is also 30cm but with a single kink. The next is identical to the previous but has an additional kink. The pattern continues with each score becoming slightly more degraded than its predecessor. Large areas of empty space have formed further into the image by drastic changes of the line. To the right of the bottom edge is a concentrated number of small vertical marks. A thick sheet of white paper, identical in size hangs directly to the left of the metal plate. Upon it is a mirror image of the markings etched into the steel, delineated in black ink.
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| A carousel slide projector is placed at one end of a folding table, facing inwards. There is a small screen towards the middle of the table and at the opposite end is a sewing pattern with a triangular optical prism placed upon it. The projector automatically shifts through a sequence of 80 slides converted from each frame of a 4 second digital video clip of an intentional crash by a Formula 1 racing driver. The images are projected onto the screen which is constructed of white foam board; approximately A4 in size and anchored by two toolmakers' clamps. A small vertical slit in the screen allows a narrow beam of light to filter through to the other side. The ray is refracted by the prism, casting a spectrum across the sewing pattern which has been taken from a 1988 edition of ''Burda Modern'' and provides overlaying templates to produce multiple garments from the same sheet.
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| ''Coil, Logo, Theme, Spire, Eclipse, Slide''
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| A digital video begins with a close-up of a red mosquito coil set against a green background. The coil is lit and edited with the MGM logo to give the impression that the lion's roar disrupts its plume. The lyric 'dream' from a song by The Everly Brothers loops in the background. It cuts to found tourist footage from multiple sources of the descent of a narrow spiral staircase around the exterior of a church spire. This is followed by an identical mosquito coil, obscuring the light from a projector that faces towards the camera in a darkened room. The opening scene is replayed through the projector, causing the current image to flicker. The next sequence of tourist footage depicts bathers spiralling down a concave water slide. The video returns to the opening shot until a segment of ash falls from the burning coil. It ends with a montage, in chronological order of the 'dream' lyric taken from Everly Brothers performances that span five decades.
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