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2009 - WHAT HAPPENED ON 23RD STREET IN 1901

WHAT HAPPENED ON 23RD STREET IN 1901
WHAT HAPPENED ON 23RD STREET IN 1901

Ken Jacobs

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2009

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USA

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EXP

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13

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It was a set-up.  A couple walks towards the camera, a sidewalk air-vent pushes the woman's dress up.  Layers of cloth billow and she is mortified.  The moving-picture camera, already in place and grinding away, captures the event and her consternation becomes history, now transferred to digital and shown everywhere. In this cine-reassessment, the action is simultaneously both speeded up and slowed down.  How can that be?  Overall progression is prolonged, so that a minute of recorded life-action takes ten minutes now to pass onscreen.  Overall progression is prolonged, so that a minute of recorded life-action takes ten minutes now to pass onscreen.  Slow-motion, yes?  No.  Instead, the street-action meets with a need to see more, and there descends upon the event a sudden storm of investigative technique in the form of rapid churning of film-frames, looping of the tiny time-intervals that make up events.  Black intervals enter and Eternalisms come into play meaning that directional movements continue in their directions without moving, potentially forever (hence the eternal factor, something possible to cinema however inconceivable in real life).  Further, the two-dimensional reality of the screen is contested.  Are things now appearing in depth?  Flat they are not.  Can there be a 2 1/2 D? The young woman steps past the air-vent and laughs.

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