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Incorrect Intermittence - Yo Ota (Japan, 2000, 16mm, 6:00 min)
“This film offers a metacinematic study of tempo and
change and a figure of velocity. It consists of three interrelated parts or
scenes that are unified by three different locations in Tokyo: a railway
crossing, a shopping street, and a temple. In Ota’s experiment, editing is not
the primary tool, yet it shows the emphasized rhythm of a montage film. To
obtain this paradox of continuity, duration, change, and speed, Ota recorded
each location at the interval of hours, and sometimes even days, by using
different filters and by alternating the camera speed. The result mirrors
aspects of both duration and speed while using real time as an editing tool. It
represents an inquiry into the abstract space-time of cinema where Ota plays
with the physical fact that time is a ‘function of movement in space’.”
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