Micro-Celluloid Incidents in Four Santas

The moment- to- moment flow of time at common public amusements in Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, Santa Clarita, & Santa Rosa, California, is exposed through a kind of 21st century “perceptiscope,” a device used by Ray Birdwhistell and Jacques D. Van Vlack in their anthropological film, Micro-cultural Incidents in 10 Zoos. Where Birdwhistell and Van Vlack used their “film projector as a microscope,” “Micro-Celluloid Incidents…”, utilizes digital tools to interrogate film, and in so doing, to investigate meaning.What can be shown and what can be known? — JCL