Walk-On Parts [formerly Concentration]

1974
Country: UK
Duration: 5 mins
B&W,
Sound: Silent
Available Format/s: 16mm

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Formerly known as Concentration.
A priori – spatial/temporal expansion (extension) /contraction/alternate lens lengths/camera speeds (eventually set to repeat ‘but the circle is broken’): Indeterminate system-people ‘n’ animals-groups/individuals (unknowing complicity in fiction-‘walk on parts’) – passing across the frame, often hidden/placed by cars, lorries passing between camera and ‘image’ (Rauschenberg’s trucks with… mobilise words and broadside our culture…’). Shot duration/direction determined by the a-priori system recording / reconstructing the ‘actual’ unplanned speed/entrance/exit (theatre) of the ‘characters’. ‘Actual speed’: perceived / apparent (camera) speed. Speed/light synchronisity.’Diagram’ – longest lens length/slowest camera speed (fastest perceptual speed.) max. light per frame. Shortest lens length/fastest camera speed (slowest ‘analytical’ perceived speed) min. light per frame.

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