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What Happened On 23rd Street In 1901 - Ken Jacobs (USA, 2009, video, 13:00 min, mute)
“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. 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.”
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