I'm late to this discussion/catching up, but it has been interesting to read. I've recently started buying some of the Cantrills Filmnotes - some of the Brakhage & Len Lye issues initially, and in issue #21/22 April 1975, page 40, Brakhage mentions the insertion of two frames of black and high number of splices in this film - the article is a transcription of the intro & (long) discussions after the 1974 screening of "The Text of Light". there are also interesting discussions about “On Light, or the Ingression of Forms” by Robert Grosseteste with Hollis Frampton. I found his Zorns Lemma film on youtube with the reading of this treatise at the end. I fear it may take a while to read all the issues, as each article leads to further research, which is great (& similar to this mail list, so thanks) http://www.arthurandcorinnecantrill.com/contents.html
On 26 February 2012 07:51, <nicky.ham...@talktalk.net> wrote: > I've recently been encouraged to blow my own trumpet, so here are two > extracts from an essay I wrote on the Roman Numeral Films that were > published in the book Stan Brakhage Filmmaker edited by David James and > published by Temple UP in 2005 : > > In a number of the films Brakhage inserts black spacing, but in each case > the function and effect of this is different. In the first film there is a > run of similar looking shots in each of which the first one or two slightly > overexposed frames has been retained. This overexposure is an effect of the > Bolex taking a frame or two to run up to speed (and, on a forensic note, is > slightly different from the run-up frames produced by other makes of > camera). Each of these frames is preceded by one frame of black, which > serves to heighten by contrast the flash of the first, light frame. Thus a > purposeful, precisely calculated shot (one frame of black) is placed next > to an incidental effect at the beginning of a shot, something that would > normally be discarded. The equal validity of both intentional and > unintentional features is thereby signalled. >
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