[-empyre-] bridging & flying machines

[naxsmash]

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johannes---

link:  http://vimeo.com/channels/naxsmash

   or :  http://vimeo.com/channels/naxsmash#5766529



> thanks also for sending me a link to your video, "soda lake  
> (unbound'),
> which i first couldn't watch as our network here in the Mine was too  
> slow,
> and so it stopped, after a few seconds, a black and white ghostly  
> panorama
> of a figure, a women perhaps, or a man, trying to open some tent or  
> sail
> or heavy parachute that might have dropped her/him from skies to  
> shores
> of desert or ocean in white (salt lake) or outdoors somewhere,   
> frozen.
>
> when the film started to move again (the network here being fickle)  
> i am spell bound
> by the movement in this film: broken up into  5 parallel  
> (horizontally placed) film frames
> in almost constant motion and some less so (slowed, then blurred  
> forward),
> the center frame seems a bit larger  (but changes place on occasion)
> and over the rustling sounds (the parachute that  is being unfolded  
> or the tent that is constructed or some not yet known
> da Vincian flying apparatus or perhaps fishing device) are unfolding  
> an
> uncertain plot , uncertain emtotions, there is no resolution for  
> this person there on this
> beach-head or sky-line, the unfolding  seems unsuccessful but perhaps
> it is the contrary as i do not know the purpose of the flying  
> apparatus,
> or modes of preparing the
> flying machine,
>
> and at the end the breath of the dance of this effort
> and the gliding motion of this split screen film finally become  
> smaller and
> smaller, a little windown in the black center of things, and pfffh,  
> it is gone.
>
>

blushing : I did not realize you would write about this for - 
empyre-... I am touched.



> this is quite an unusual and thrilling, mysterious film noir dance  
> video,
> the protagonist is a woman, but one cannot be sure,
> i recognize a tattoo  and the effort of the
> labor in the sky, the effort seems real,
> the meaning of the dance osbcured and multiplied
> in the segmentational transitions.
>
>


love, c