Add to playlist1/2 of the film was shot using a hand cranked 35mm camera, a 1912 Bell and Howell 2709 — B. The other half of the film was shot in HD. The film was hand processed and using the colour matrix and gamma of a hand made emulsion (using my own tinted blood cells for grain — based on a 1930’s patent) the film was transferred to high definition video.
Digital cinema though apparently greatly distanced from the naturalism enjoyed by emulsion can be made to be much more reflective of the complexity and morphology of nature and natural processes.
À la base, cette oeuvre est composée d’images des paysages montagneux de la Colombie-Britannique, tournées en pellicule 35mm noir et blanc à l’aide d’une caméra ancienne de marque Bell & Howell. Cette matière première fut ensuite transférée vers un format vidéo HD, puis ré-encodée avec une matrice couleur extrapolée de données extraits d’une expérimentation film où des cellules sanguines teintées servaient de grain photographique. Cette expérimentation est elle-même passée par un procédé morphique supplémentaire, utilisant une version imparfaite du théorème des tores invariables de Vladimir Arnold (une fonction mathématique, sorte de mapping chaotique, qui crée un effet visuel de cisaillement). L’image est ainsi étirée, mélangée et reconstituée, créant un effet dynamique où l’image originale disparait et réapparaît parmi le bruit visuel. Le tout est un exercice d’exploration esthétique, temporelle et de reconnaissance de motif. Eastern Bloc, New Media Production & Exhibition Centre, Montreal.
— analog / binary — & electricity & hydro power & British Columbia & the beginnings of cinema via Eadweard Muybridge & the energy certificates of the Technocracy party & the absolute value of noise & the year 1957 & regional modernism & the Big Bang & Vermeer's “Milk Maid” & Poincaré recurrence theorem & the great Canadian cowboy singer Wilf Carter & Western Culture & the concept of Grace in Catholic painting & the Tathāgatas of Buddhism & Boris Karloff as Frankenstein reaching for the light.
To “bless” is to “mark with blood”
Premiered at the Seoul International New Media Festival 2010 | presented at the Portland Art Museum/Northwest Film & Video Festival USA 2010 | Son & Vue, Montreal 2011 | Stocka International FF & Media Gallery, Sweden | Vancouver International Film Center | Festival Internacional de Arte Experimental, Bilbao, Spain 2011
Digital cinema though apparently greatly distanced from the naturalism enjoyed by emulsion can be made to be much more reflective of the complexity and morphology of nature and natural processes.
“What then is to be done? I haven’t sought my happiness; I have sought after truth. You will find here neither a revelation nor a prophet, but a simple deduction from the spectral analysis and cosmogony of Laplace. These two discoveries make us eternal. Is this a godsend? We should profit from it. Is it a mystification? We should resign ourselves to it.” Eternity Through the Stars, Auguste Blanque, 1872
