Timed 1 2 3

(A part of MODELS Reel 1, 1972)

“My favorite section of Models – “Timed 1, Timed 2, Timed 3” – is a particularly effective interweaving of visuals and sounds. Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there is more and more light and less darkness, then vice versa. During “Timed 1” a sound “bip” scratched directly onto the soundtrack is audible each second; in “Timed 2” the sounds are audible every 10 seconds; and in “Timed 3” we hear them every 100 seconds, or at the halfway point and at the end. While the use of sound in a variety of regular measures results in some of the same sorts of awareness of small units of time which are developed in “2 Minutes, 46 Seconds, 16 Frames (100 Feet),” “Timed 1, 2, and 3″ tends to create an overall experience which is more sculptural, more environmental.” -Scott MacDonald (The author of “A Critical Cinema,” California University Press)