cinema series
Cinema is an ongoing limited edition dvd series where clips from films are paired as 'double features'. But in this case the films play side by side where the audio of each narrates the other, and the image tracks create a new sense of montage. Here is remix that reads, re-reads, aurally and pictorially both cinema and what it is to see the image as a file, in the context of the digital, as cinema reading itself.
In the first edition Cinema 01 Irma Vep is paired with The Man Who Fell to Earth to reveal a beautiful and uncanny relationship of otherness.
First rule of cinema, first love of cinema is to recognize a representation of yourself. I am here. This is me, this is cinema, you can see me here, on the screen. Loving the Alien who is us. From representation to pure lines of speed. Cinema moves. Cinema is thought. Cinema is an encounter as are these brilliant films who speak to each other at odd and beautiful ways
Film is a recording, an event of recording. There is a lot there to talk about but suffice it to say for now that the first clip in the series presents film as a recording, as a seeing that is extra-ordinary, that sees and thinks things we don't. This is the beauty of all art. This seeing of what we may sense, feel or intuit and that art in its material instantiation gives us in an heighten sense.
The clips are films I love, they are recordings. recording re-recorded and re-presented side by side with other recordings, each to give sense of the other. That's the game, the instructions. One clip narrates the other and vice versa.
Cinema 02
in the second edition The Tenant and Night of the Living Dead gives a sense of two profoundly different kins of horror.
You're coming after me, aren't you. Something's wrong. I am so alive. I feel well. I might even be happy. Will you let me be. Will you leave me alone? Who are you? This is going too far. Much much too far. Polanksi is brilliant in his night of the living dead. The Tenant music score gives a quieter, eerier quality to the that film.