Tracking Cycles

“Many of Ron Haselden’s concerns arise from a previous involvement with sculpture but this film relates also to more recent film structures or ‘expanded cinema’ pieces:that is, film involved with its performance space. Tracking Cycles is a ‘normal’ single screen work but reflects its makers interest in the perception of space. Haselden is very interested in the relation between the still photograph and the cine film and Tracking Cycles exemplified this with its structure centred on the still frame. A complex relationship is created between still and swiftly moving image, between space and the image that represents it.” – Simon Field.”Haselden sees his activity as a drawing process, drawing with the camera, with the film and on the film, in time and space. His use of very down-to-earth source material which is easy to relate to, couples with a rigorous and professional attitude to his working process, gives his work strength and creates a wide range of subtle imagery which reveals the structuring of the activity without reverting to the dry tautology of so much.” – ‘Structural Film’. – Peter Dunn, Studio International 1977.