A few folks who we invited to experience our private “screening” of Long Film for Ambient Light have begun to filter back with their thoughts after the event. Mike and Deborah visited in its last half hour, late Saturday morning the 17th of March. Mike sent us these thoughts:
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Flemo: notes from Long Film
[Lucas and Flemo about 9pm on Friday 16 March, photo by Peter Shaw taken from outside Track 12] A few folks who we invited to experience our private “screening†of Long Film for Ambient Light have begun to filter back with their thoughts after the event. First cab off the rank is Flemo. Thanks for …
Long Film Dream
Long Film for Ambient Light related dream, 23 march 2007, 5.30am: This bizarre dream popped up about 5 days after we did our experiment with Long Film. Talk about mental residue. Remember, all characters are fictional and their resemblance to any person living or dead etc…xx Lucas We’re in New York and Anthony McCall is …
Lucas: notes from Long Film for Ambient Light
16 march 2007 noon (written at 1.30pm) I pressed go on the timer. Set it to 23 hours 59 minutes. But we still were setting up, so didn’t really take the moment to just be here. Kat was still vacuuming. The space felt clean and neat, there was a “coming into clarity” about the whole …
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Lucas: Expanded Cinema Residency March 12th
Digging around old notes collected during research in london, found an interview with William Raban from the “illuminations†series. I had watched these interviews, with raban and also guy sherwin, while sitting in the office of the british artists film research unit at central st martins college. Stephen ball emailed me the raw transcriptions. There …
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Lucas: Expanded Cinema Residency March 10th
today we decided to have a shorter session – to concentrate on getting one complete iteration done of 55 seconds, and 6 minutes, from go to whoa. we got it done in under three hours, which is a big improvement. peter was with us, which made it a bit more fun. the very light 16mm …
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Louise: Expanded Cinema Residency March 10th
In doing the Expanded works in late 2003-4, my motivation was to see actually experience these pieces as reading on page, hard to really understand. Also motivated to do them to continue with performance aspect to SMIC events. I was thinking a lot about interactivity at the time – mostly because the buzz at COFA …
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Lucas: Expanded Cinema Residency March 9th
big day today, meeting with kat and telling her all about the project, what we’re trying to do, the four works that we’re concentrating on. she’s our tech assistant, and will be helping us set the room up for long film for ambient light. all these works have a concentration on time, pushing and pulling …
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Expanded Cinema Residency March 8th
wow this is turning out to be an oddball project. yesterday and today we spent learning how to hand process 16mm film (louise already knew, but was learning to do it more systematically, and i was starting from scratch). it’s pretty much the same as processing 35mm black and white still photographic negative, except obviously …
Expanded Cinema Residency March 6th
Yesterday we began our residency at the performance space, working with expanded cinema. It’s been a bit crazy, making space for this project. Life’s so hectic, but it’s good to have the three weeks laid aside specifially to focus on this stuff, even if we’re not as “prepared†as we might have wanted to be. …