Segal tells us this too, right before she tells me something I can't verify:
> With the exception of the last image, each shot is two minutes and forty two > seconds long (the equivalent of one camera roll, approximately 100 feet of > film). Each voice-over begins fifteen to twenty seconds after the new > photograph appears, precisely the amount of time permitted before the > photograph’s destruction visibly begins. j On Mar 5, 2016, at 1:27 PM, Dave Tetzlaff <djte...@gmail.com> wrote: >> each segment has a slightly different length. > > About ten years ago, I was showing (nostalgia) in class, pondering the > duration of the shots, looking at a watch occasionally as the edits went by, > and I had a kind of revelation: Each shot is a 100' load. I don't know if any > one's written about that one way or the other, but (if true) it would be a > kind of obvious conceptual match - one still photo burned shot with one spool > of movie film. > > Exposed and processed 100' loads only contain approximately the same amount > of usable image. If HF loaded/unloaded under light, the leaks on the head and > tail snipped off would be different, and even if he used a darkroom, getting > the camera threaded will take up slightly different lengths off the head. > Finally, depending on where he got the stock, 100' loads might not be exactly > 100', or exactly the same. > > So, the algorithm component wouldn't be 'each shot is [X} feet' or '[X] > duration on screen', but 'each shot is all the usable footage that came out > of one load of an MOS camera'. Quite elegant, if that's indeed what it is... > _______________________________________________ > FrameWorks mailing list > FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks > j/PrM ************************************************* john muse visiting assistant professor of independent college programs haverford college http://www.finleymuse.com http://www.haverford.edu/faculty/jmuse http://haverford.academia.edu/JohnMuse ************************************************* _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list FrameWorks@jonasmekasfilms.com https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
