Proyecto corto experimental - "Morris"
Black Ice - Stan Brakhage
— Stan Brakhage
Punishment Park - Peter Watkins
Maxwell's demon - Hollis Frampton
I wanted to do something -to put it as sentimentally as possible-for James Clerk
Maxwell who is, or was, either the last qualitative physicist or the first quan- titative physicist . Maxwell is known and admired among physicists for his work in thermodynamics, which is something I don't know or understand very much about. I believe we're all steeped in thermodynamics in the physical sense ; but I have particularly revered Clerk Maxwell because he became, in a very brief aside in
a lecture delivered at the Royal College of Edinburgh or some place like that, the Father of the Analytical theory of color, which,in it's applications and ramifications, has given us color photography and color cinematography. Hollis Frampton.
Me parece interesante que Frampton lleva un pensamiento-experimento de la segunda ley de la Termodinámica a un filme. Cuando vi Maxwells Demon no logré entender muy bien la relación entre lo que explica Frampton en su entrevista con Robert Gardner sobre la Termodinámica, pero ahora que investigo más sobre el tema, me gustaría verlo de nuevo con una idea mas clara. Aun así me pareció interesante el movimiento de ese individuo que parece estar haciendo calentamientos, el sonido que establece un ritmo junto con la imagen pero no necesariamente en sincronía.
El siguiente video ayuda a entender lo que es Maxwell`s Demon.
Glaze of Cathexis - Stan Brakhage
Star spangled to death - Ken Jacobs
GZ: Whereas you were hoping an indeterminate cinema, an explosion of cinematic images presented to the viewer, would allow the viewer through reflection and interpretation to take an active role in the aesthetic experience, you see that this idea of indeterminacy is being used to reify viewers.
KJ: Ironically, when I first got started making films, in a vague sense this is what I hoped for – a cinema by which, through interpretation and reflection, the viewer could constitute his or her own aesthetic experience. Yet, experiences like the one manufactured by this game have no place for interpretative or reflective capacities of the human mind. They merely give the illusion of choice, while turning people into automatons. It lends no real freedom to the viewer, or in this case, player. Here it’s just training and triggering in violence. It’s just a matter of choosing who to kill. You are taken deeper and deeper into this fake reality, which gives you a false sense that you are making decisions. In a sense, games like this one are just continuing a trend amongst many films. I hoped that an indeterminate cinema would force the viewer to actively reflect on what they saw on the screen and not just be a passive receiver of images, but make decisions and judgments. I want to give the viewer as much freedom as possible to reflect on what they have seen.
Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky (sin sonido)
Winter Solstice - Hollis Frampton
El limpiador de ojo. Fue una experiencia ver fuego en una pantalla por tanto tiempo, cuando hice el ejercicio de observar 45 min. una fotografía, pasaron cosas similares, el proceso de interpretación, aburrimiento, viaje visual y viaje mental se dio en etapas muy similares. En cuanto dejé de pensar y me dejé llevar por la imagen, fue interesante que cuando termino el filme, no me acordaba donde estaba mi mente durante ese tiempo, solo recordaba la interpretación de símbolos, figuras y luces seguido de aburrimiento.
Lemon - Hollis Frampton
Critical Mass - Hollis Frampton
"As a work of art I think (Critical Mass) is quite universal and deals with all quarrels (those between men and women, or men and men, or women and women, or children, or war. It is war!... It is one of the most delicate and clear statements - human relationships and the difficulties of them that I have ever seen. It is very funny, and rather obviously so. It is a magic film in that you can enjoy it, with greater appreciation, each time you look at it. Most aesthetic experiences are not enjoyable on the surface. You have to look at them a number of times before you are able to fully enjoy them, but this one stands up at once, and again and again, and is amazingly clear."
x20 - Hollis Frampton
Artificial light
1 . A, upside-down and backwards
2 . A, in negative
3 . A, with superimposition of sprocket holes
4 . A, with eyes painted blue and mouths red
5 . A, scarred with a white drip mark
6 . A, covered with transparent stripes of red and green
7 . Still shots in sequence from A; a stroboscopic or flicker effect
8 . A, almost obliterated by scratches
9 . Shots from A, toned different colors by dye, in an asequential order
10 . A, with faces and hair outlined by scratches, dissolves marked with a scratched slash (/)
11 . A, spotted with multicolor drops
12 . Superimposition of A, with a copy of A in which left and right are reversed
13 . A, with all faces bleached out
14 . A, with a flicker of colors (red, green, blue)
15 . A, covered with art-type printers dots
16 . A, toned sepia
17. A, superimposed over itself with a lag of one-and-a-half-seconds
18 . A, interrupted by two-frame flashes of color negative
19 . A, colored, as if through an electrical process, in a series of two primaries
20 . A, with a closeup of a moon crater substituted for the expected moon shots
Al ver este trabajo de Hollis Frampton siento que ya lo he visto muchas veces, supongo que se debe a la sobre explotación de la imagen que se ha dado en la última decada, "x20" se hizo en 1969 cuando no se veía este tipo de multiplicación de imágenes como algo ordinario, cuando veo este filme, se abren lineas de fuga que remiten a cámaras de seguridad. Al ver "Zorn Lemma", film que hace Frampton en 1970, creo que logra mejor lo que intenta explorar en "x20", ya que el significado y la interpretación de la imagen termina por desaparecer.
The Devils - Ken Russell
Ver este filme fue una experiencia fuerte, no por el constante ataque y critica a la religión ni por su fuerte simbolismo, creo que al verla me pesó más la conducta humana, el miedo y el poder, todo lo que se esconde. El sentimiento que transmite la película se hace tan poderoso gracias a sus muchos aciertos estéticos. Las imágenes por si solas hablan mucho, el diseño de producción y las actuaciones son excelentes y encima la música terminó de volverme loco, no fue un filme que disfruté, de hecho me costó trabajo verlo, supongo que era la intención de Ken Russell.