In a different way, Monet did something similar in his studies of
cathedrals and lilies at different times of day, weather--documenting the
energy and life of light on the objects which generate its appearnce--
by being attentive to the same object from the same viewpoint
also Cezanne, returning continually to his mountain--
His "motif"--
the writer Clark Coolidge in THE CRYSTAL TEXT produces a book made
of daily meditations and encounters with language which emerge from an
acute attention to a single crystal placed on his writing desk.
The scene in THE AMERICAN FRIEND--I think that Hopper charcter is
tryng to document him"self" pysically in a sense to try to find by his
outward "being" "expressions" some manifestation of a "self" which he
senses desperately is "empty".
"Seeing is believing"--"documentary proof"--
one cd also minutely alter, with each documentation, the site, for
the project suggested here
these wd be so minimal it wd take some time to be aware of!
but in a way that is the same thing as the daily accululation of
dust!
or--the cycylical existence of dumpstrs: filling up slowly, then
more frantically piled and tottering--them emptied out--and so over again
and again (unless there is a strike!)
--dbc
--Godard claimed that cinema is "truth 24 frames second"
--Cocteau said that cinema "films death at work"
On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Sol Nte wrote:
> PK wrote:
>
> >I've always liked the time piece in the film "Smoke" where Harvey Kietel
> places his tripod/camera at the same spot in front of his shop every day
> at the same time and takes a photograph.
>
> This might be a great fluxlist group project. Well, maybe not for a
> year, but for a month...photographing something every day (in a small
> way, maybe i-zone to conserve space) or small drawings or paintings, and
> compiling them for a specific time...a Fluxlist Month, or whatever<
>
> Tom Philips has done a similar thing for many years now photographing the
> same street corner in South London (unfortunately Ican't remember what the
> interval of the photographs is). His concern is to document the change of
> that corner...shops come and go, buildings change etc.
>
> I haven't seen the film "Smoke".
>
> My favourite photography scene in a film is in Wim Wenders' "The American
> Friend" where a bored Dennis Hopper takes polaroids of himself whilst lying
> on his pool table.
>
> cheers,
>
> Sol.
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