A-B-C-D-E-F=1-36

In my work up until now, and I am thinking about the years 1972-75, I was interested in the mathematical logic of the existence of film. Through the phrase Models of film structures I tried to understand what it was that guided film, what was its structural matter, matter in the logical sense, and not matter in the understanding suggested by P.Gidal in the Structural Film Anthology. Hypothetical Film enters the sphere of the abstract understood in a very extreme way. Hypothetical Film does not test it does not analyse , it does not trouble itself with logical, illogical or material existence of film, on the other hand it suggests the carrying over of a physical system in the direction of an unintelligible unverified reality, hypothetical reality. Hypothetical Film proposal opens – I believe – a new field for discussion which is far greater than the field of film itself (film-fact). I believe that the leaving of the sphere taking film for granted is, at this moment, the most important and interesting problem, a problem which allows us once more to leave the boundaries of what has already become our knowledge (awareness).

Hypothetical Film considers in each of the proposed arrangement its basic value – 1 second – simultaneously with its divisions into lesser qualities. It has been accepted that physical time, in which each event has its beginning and end (e.g. projection time), may be lessened to a statistical time, time with abstract and not physical characteristics. These conditions are met by a so called empty (statis ) interval time existing as an abstract quality in the physical arrangement, through which its projection becomes a hypothetical projection. The empty interval time, stays in relation to physical time understood as the denotation of the time of exposure of each separate film frame (as I have already described in my Four-dimensional photography). Physical time (exposure time) may exist even most extreme qualities, as its own projection, on the other hand in the system proposed by Hypothetical Film it can exist only simultaneously (parallel) with the empty interval of time, in the same, physical time also becomes hypothetical projection. The empty interval time, stays in relation to physical time understood as the denotation of the time of exposure of each separate film frame (as I have already described in my Four dimensional photography).

Physical time (exposure time) may exist even most extreme qualities, as its own projection, on the other hand in the system proposed by Hypothetical Film it can exist only simultaneously (parallel) with the empty interval of time, in the same, physical time also becomes hypothetical projection of physical reality and abstract reality. Hypothetical Film consists of a number of projections considered in the context of the basic quality – 1 second of physical time – reduced to value O (1 second running time of the empty interval time). – Before and After – a short text on my last work called Hypothetical Film by Ryszard Wasko – Lodz 1979.
R.W.