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using a first generation vhs copy of dali/bunuel's Un Chien Andalou (b&w), a four minute segment was chosen and re-iterated 10 times, using two vhs machines to gather noise and degrade the footage as an experiment in texture. Notes were taken during each iteration noting the characteristics and visible changes of the latest copy. By the tenth iteration figures become masses of black or white noise, the white parts of the imgae begin to ghost and bleed into the black parts, and the edges of everything become furtive and flickering. |
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The footage was again trimmed down to the woman who turns, looks and turns back. This was then captured into final cut pro and scrolled through frame by frame while printing back to vhs tape. The coloured noise which had accumulated was dropped out using contrast changes. It remains on vhs to preserve the interlacing flicker: one of the textural qualities I wanted to emphasise. |
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Un Chien Woman was presented at the Visual Sampling show, Loft Gallery, Hobart as a constant vhs loop on a standard television, there is no sound and the result is a slowly moving, gently flickering photocopy. Heavy, grotesque, undertones projected by her expression of surprise and fear. Caught in a perpetual pattern of reaction. |
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un chien woman is available as a loop on VHS tape...contact |
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