RESEARCH FIXITY - FLUIDITY PART 2: MOTION PICTURE

FIXITY - FLUIDITY PART 2: From fixity to fluidity

SELF DIRECTED RESEARCH Part 2: Draft text – work in progress

ABIDING (2019) Color 35mm Film - 2k Digitalized - 10bit 444 04:00min 25fps

Abiding is the work title of an animated 35mm strip-photograph taken during the first trimester. The video is part of the Eye on Art program "Disobedient Narratives" at the Eye Film Museum.

Synopsis (Short 111 words):

Abiding is a short experimental motion picture made of 14.000 frames extracted from a single 35mm strip-photograph. The piece is a visual evocation of the experience of the maker’s body, and his displacement across time and space. Taken from a train window, the artist has pulled the film manually in front of a shutterless camera lens until the film’s end. The work re-orders and transforms the fluid reality imprinted on the photosensitive surface. It is a dialectical exploration between the animate and the inanimate: an essay on the temporal logic of the cinematic-photographic. The film is a poetic approach to the empirical quality of the travel and the fluidity of the travelling.

Stills:

23.01.2019 Movement / stillness / duration

VOCABULARY Tank:

Visual acoustic (murnau) Continuum Temporal Resonances Temporal Logic Temporal Dimension Stillness Movement Flux, stream Film strip, film roll Single frame, single image Animate/inanimate Time contraction (negative anticipaption) Time expansion (positive anticipation) Duration Categories