ONE SECOND IN MONTREAL, 1969 & BACK AND FORTH, 1969

ONE SECOND IN MONTREAL, 1969
Canada | 16mm, Black and White, 26’ | No Dialogue

The film presents a collection of photographs of proposed sites for a memorial in Montreal, set in the snow. However, these photographs are not “artistic” images, but purely functional and documentary-oriented scenes. Snow makes the relationship between the viewer and the image extremely intense, not only by keeping selected photographs on the screen longer than others, but also by mathematically and conceptually organizing the lengths of time. As such, the film becomes a sculpture that exists in time without movement.

BACK AND FORTH, 1969
Canada | 16mm, Color, 50’ | No Dialogue

Shot in the inside and outside of a classroom on the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, the film features a camera constantly moving back and forth. First, it speeds up until everything inside the room in focus is blurred, then it starts to move up and down. Through movement and time, this wall is brought to a spiritual dimension. The film involves not only the mind and the eyes, as cinema often does but also incorporates the neck in the process of experiencing the film.

Screening date:
March 1, 13.00