Shutter

‘What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created by a fade-in-out device while shooting the light/the bulb of the projector. The viewer literally looks into the light which acts like an eye.'(T.I.)

“Using two projector speeds and various camera speeds, he (Imura) photographed the light thrown onto a screen by a projector with no film running through it. Because of the disparities between the speeds of the camera and projector shutters, the resulting footage, which he printed first in positive, then in negative, creates a series of flicker effects which are even more powerful than those at the end of Film Strips II…
All in all, the variety of effects SHUTTER creates makes for one of the more interesting of those many works of recent years which have attempted to explore the visual potential of film process and materials.” – Scot Macdonald, 1978.